Mainly because you cannot open them in Visual Studio and even after I have
built the source once you cannot even just build the local project file – well
that is what I am finding.
For reference this using WiX 3.7 as the 3.8 build seems to be broken (defect
raised). I am also finding that the 3.7 build is failing very late in the
process and am investigating why (this may be affecting what I am doing with
the gaming extension).
Neil
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com]
Sent: 19 February 2013 14:08
To: Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Building WiX Code
Okay, cool. Why is that better than being able to use the project files in the
WiX build the same way? (assuming we fix any instances of issue #2 I listed
previously)
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Neil Sleightholm
<n...@x2systems.com<mailto:n...@x2systems.com>> wrote:
I can document it more fully but basically I created new default project files
for wixproj, vcxproj and csproj and then put the files in them. The C++ was the
hardest as I needed to copy across all the build settings. Once you have
standard project files building is easy and the settings can all be overridden
from an external build process rather than in the project file.
Neil
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com<mailto:r...@robmensching.com>]
Sent: 18 February 2013 23:09
To: Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Building WiX Code
Okay, that's getting to the crux of the issue. What is missing or what did you
add to make you so much faster outside of the WiX build process that made it
worthwhile to do that work?
From my point of view, you should be able to get the same exact wins inside the
WiX toolset without having to do the work to extract the code out of the WiX
build process and create a new one.
What was different outside of the WiX toolset?
PS: if someone wants to go about getting the extension build to use the built
files they'd be available in the SDK, that seems reasonable to me as long as it
makes it easier to build the extensions, not harder. <smile/>
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Neil Sleightholm
<n...@x2systems.com<mailto:n...@x2systems.com>> wrote:
I appreciate this wouldn’t be trivial to arrange but I believe the benefits
would be worth it. I base this on the speed at which I have been able to
develop the extended BA, spending time breaking it out of the WiX build has
made it so much easier to work on.
Neil
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