[wix-devs] Building WiX

[Christopher Painter]

To be clear, does VS2010-VS2019  mean any of those or all of those? 🙂  Sorry if that's a stupid question but I just want to make sure.

I want to work on the VS extension.  Adding 2022 support seems trivial and I could probably just build the CA and transplant it into an MSI using ORCA for testing.  I just don't want to submit something that's not tested and for the reviewers to think I was sloppy.

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From: Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2022 10:03 AM
To: WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Cc: Christopher Painter <chrpai at iswix.com>
Subject: RE: Building WiX

I _think_ you need VS2010-VS2019 to build everything. You probably don't need to build everything to validate a fix though. It's been a long time since I created a new WiX v3 build machine.

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From: wix-devs <wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of Christopher Painter via wix-devs
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2022 7:34 AM
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Cc: Christopher Painter <chrpai at iswix.com>
Subject: [wix-devs] Building WiX

I want to submit a PR for WiX v3.  It's so simple that I could probably shoot from the hip and submit it but that feels wrong to me.  I want to build the whole thing and completely validate my change.  I will not need to build Votive though.

I haven't attempted to build WiX since well before COVID and while I managed to get it all working then I know longer have that VM and don't remember everything I did.

So, starting with https://wixtoolset.org/development/building-wix/

Does anyone have any tribal knowledge to share with me?   Is 2010-2015 still the required versions of VS?

Thanks,
Chris

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