[wix-devs] Linux changes

[Sean Hall]

> I'd be interested to understand where that doesn't work.

The people writing the Linux code will not want to develop WiX on Windows.

> I think that says we'll only support a recent version of VS2019 to build
the WiX Toolset.

My question wasn't really about where we're setting our baseline, but what
happens when a new VS version comes out (VS 2021?). For example, are we
going to support VS2017+ libs even if VS vNext doesn't support building
them?

On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 9:12 AM Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com> wrote:

> I saw those too.
>
> >  dotnet.exe does not support '/' for switches, even on Windows. Maybe we
> should remove support for it as well?
>
> I had the same thought. I think that says, yes. :) I am planning to work
> on the command-line changes next (after I get the UI.wixext happy) so I'll
> handle that.
>
>
> > Are the OS conditioned changes that I proposed something we want to do?
>
> I'm not really excited about building WiX on Linux (nor maintaining a CI
> system that builds on multiple platforms). I'd rather we use VS's ability
> build Linux binaries so we can build everything from Windows. I'd be
> interested to understand where that doesn't work.
>
> As for VS versions, we were already looking at taking a dependency on
> 16.6.3 (or something later than that) for the enhanced wild-card support
> for NuGet packages. IIRC, we also decided to cut our
> (dutil,wcautil,balutil) lib's support to VS2017+ which means we can build
> all native code from VS2019 now.
>
> I think that says we'll only support a recent version of VS2019 to build
> the WiX Toolset.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-devs <wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of Sean
> Hall via wix-devs
> Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2020 2:42 AM
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> Cc: Sean Hall <r.sean.hall at gmail.com>
> Subject: [wix-devs] Linux changes
>
> We have a couple of PRs to start supporting Linux -
> https://github.com/wixtoolset/Tools/pull/44 and
> https://github.com/wixtoolset/Core/pull/165.
>
> dotnet.exe does not support '/' for switches, even on Windows. Maybe we
> should remove support for it as well?
>
> v3 had a very complicated build system to try to support building WiX with
> many different versions of VS. How flexible are we going to try to be in
> v4? Are the OS conditioned changes that I proposed something we want to do?
>
>