[cvsnt] Re: WIX installer engine for CVSNT?

Tony Hoyle tony.hoyle at march-hare.com
Tue Feb 14 22:47:10 GMT 2006


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Bo Berglund wrote:
> > 
> Tony,
> I went to SF to download WIX, but I think I have gotten the wrong
> thing.
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/
> I downloaded something called votive2.msi, which installed some kind
> of plug-in to Visual Studio 2003.
> I expected a program to manage the wxs files...

votive is the VS integration plugin.

You need to download wix 2 (not wix 3 as it's not stable yet).

> Is this the way it is supposed to work?
> Or is there a GUI front end to the installer engine somewhere?

No GUI, but the script is pretty simple once you've got your head around 
the way MSI structures things (which I'll admit is a bit wierd).

Tony



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