Dear WiX Users and Developers, Yesterday I started to use WiX. It seems to be an adequate choice to be the official tool to create a Windows installer for GeoGebra, the free dynamic mathematics software. (Earlier we used NSIS for that.)
WiX does a wonderful job, so I thank the developers for this great software! Now I am about to create a multilingual installer. I learned that I need some tweaks to do that. My main problem is that we would like to run WiX from the Wine Windows emulator, because our packaging process runs completely on Linux. Fortunately, the newest Wine (+winetricks for the .NET Framework) can run WiX under Linux properly, so I was able to create a perfect MSI file using WiX, under Linux. Now I learned what I need to do is to create a multilanguage installer as http://wix.tramontana.co.hu/tutorial/transforms/morphing-installersdescribes. Unfortunately, running torch.exe under Wine gives the following exception: kovzol@kovzol-dell:~/workspace/geogebra/scripts/autobuild/windows/WiX$ wine ../wix35/torch.exe -p -t language GeoGebra.msi GeoGebra_hu-hu.msi -out hu-hu.mst fixme:sync:CreateMemoryResourceNotification (0) stub fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"wix" fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"System" fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"wconsole" fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"wix.resources" fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"wix.resources" Microsoft (R) Windows Installer Xml Transform Builder version 3.5.2519.0 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"System.Xml" fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented. fixme:msi:MsiDatabaseGenerateTransformW 2 1 L"Z:\\home\\kovzol\\workspace\\geogebra\\scripts\\autobuild\\windows\\WiX\\hu-hu.mst" 0 0 fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"mscorlib.resources" fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"mscorlib.resources" fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"wix.resources" fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"wix.resources" fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"wix.resources" fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"wix.resources" torch.exe : error TRCH0001 : Call not implemented Exception Type: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception Stack Trace: at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Msi.Database.GenerateTransform(Database referenceDatabase, String transformFile) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Binder.BindTransform(Output transform, String transformFile) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Binder.Bind(Output output, String file) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Torch.Run(String[] args) fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"torch.resources" fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"torch.resources" Binder temporary directory located at 'C:\users\kovzol\Temp\swy7q6gd'. Unbinder temporary directory located at 'C:\users\kovzol\Temp\swy7q6gd'. Torch temporary directory located at 'C:\users\kovzol\Temp\wrh77ehg'. I know that this is rather a Wine problem than a WiX bug, but probably one of you have some kind of experience of running WiX under Wine. I am also interested in compiling WiX against Mono (for Unix) as well. Is it possible? If you like, you can read on how to run WiX under Linux/Wine at http://www.geogebra.org/trac/wiki/CreateMSIonUnix. The autobuild machinery is in developing phase yet, but anyone can check it out at http://www.geogebra.org/trac/browser/trunk/geogebra/scripts/autobuild/windows/WiX . I also experienced that RTF files generated by LibreOffice 3.2 or latex2rtf, are unable to work with WiX. Only Wordpad helped. So, thank you the great work again, and thank for any help in advance! Best regards, Zoltan Kovacs developer of the GeoGebra team ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
