I can’t speak for Rob, but I believe he meant using MSBuild to call the WiX
toolset to build your MSI instead of using your own code calling the WiX
library directly. However, there is also no reason you can’t call the library
in the way that you are, other than maintaining the duplication of ef
This is more of a wix-users list question, as it involves using the WiX
toolset instead of building the toolset itself. That would likely be a
better place to ask this question.
But to address your question: have you looked at the embedded chaining
capability of MSI 4.5 and above? It is availab
Hi,
I have an issue in building WIX MSI. The scenario is explained below.
I have created an WIX MSI that has huge number of components and building this
MSI takes lot of time.
Now in order to make small change in any binary I do not want to re-build the
whole MSI.
Again I can create MSPs to tak
You mean MSBuild to build my own copy of WiX? I've tried it twice before
and failed each time :(
There are few issues with custom built WiX:
- I would have to properly setup WiX build machine and keep it up to
date with the WiX development
- I would have to keep my WiX source code changes in th
