[wix-users] Has anyone have made an installer that downloads and installs dependencies first?

[Daniel Rodriguez]

Thank you Phil! That guided me into the next step.

2015-11-16 8:42 GMT-05:00 Phill Hogland <phill.hogland at rimage.com>:

> When you have a third-party installer on which your app depends, then
> create a Burn bundle (in VS the Wix setup.exe template) project to chain
> the dependency with your MSI package(s).
> https://www.firegiant.com/wix/tutorial/net-and-net/bootstrapping/
>
> Do not try to launch a nested setup from within an MSI, as that is
> strongly discouraged.
>
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> Subject: [wix-users] Has anyone have made an installer that downloads and
> installs dependencies first?
>
> Hi, I'm new with WiX, I've read the FireGiant tutorial (most of it), it's
> a beautiful piece of information but I'm still clueless about one
> requirement in my project, let me explain: I need to make an installer that
> has to download cygwin and run some stuff inside of cygwin before the
> program is ready.
>
> I'm aware that I can add custom actions, so I can download dependencies,
> but that means I will need to download cygwin's installer, right? and thus
> I will need to run that installer from my installer?? Is that the right way?
>
> I'm happy to know that I'll be learning many things in this project but
> that particular point is not clearly defined for me, I prefer to ask
> instead of trying to go bind to see if any attempt works, so I wonder if
> any of you has an example that does something similar that I could use to
> learn how to achieve my goals, or anything that could guide me.
>
> In any case, thanks for your time, I appreciate it.
>
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