Jose Sanchez Saldana (Excell Data Corporation) wrote: > I’m attempting to call sed.exe as an embedded binary from an MSI – > however, it has three dependencies: cygiconv2.dll, cygintl2.dll, and > cygwin1.dll. Does wix have any mechanism, through custom actions, that > would allow sed.exe to be called from within the MSI - through the > <binary> tag – without having to actually install the various > dependencies? Thanks.
No. From my experience, I would only recommend static binaries for custom actions (ie. do not rely on C runtime either). Just as a side note, cygwin and sed (what you seem to be using) are both licensed under GPL license hence you are required to provide source code access to all customers using the software (installer is also software), including any modifications. Furthermore, the installer would need to be rebuildable with the modified sed files (if customers wants to do that for whatever reason) so source code/object code of the wix would need to be provided as well. If you are using this for excel installation or something like that, I would urge you not to use GPLed code or binaries - they are *not* freeware. Instead, please use BSD licensed software or similar software that may be considered "freeware" for binary only distributions. I think there are BSD implementations of sed (though less feature packed than GNU GPL version) - Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
