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

[Phill Hogland]

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.

-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Rodriguez
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2015 4:51 PM
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
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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