[wix-devs] Running WiX on Linux using Mono

[Simon Tatham]

Simon Tatham <anakin at pobox.com> wrote:
> Really? Surely the whole family of functions that interface to
> MsiOpenDatabase / MsiDatabaseImport / MsiDatabaseCommit and so on
[...]
> (In wix3 those live in a different native-code DLL from the cab routines
> - msi.dll rather than winterop.dll itself - and I had to build shims for
> both.)

Sorry, my misunderstanding. Now I look more closely, I see that msi.dll
isn't part of wix3 at all - it's a standard Windows DLL which the C#
side of wix3 seems to be loading and using directly, without needing a
native-code glue layer of its own in between.

(Apparently I didn't even bother to check that during my initial
investigation - I just saw mono under strace trying to load libmsi.so,
and so I started writing one and looked to see what functions it needed
to contain, without checking where the real version actually lived :-)

So it's not part of the current winterop.dll arrangements, but it is
still a dependency on OS-specific functionality which would need
replacing on Linux.

Cheers,
Simon

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