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

[Daniel Rodriguez]

Phill, I'm sorry but I need to ask,

What do I do with non-MSI installers as dependencies?

For example, cygwin doesn't provide a MSI installer!

Thanks again for your time and patience.

2015-11-16 8:59 GMT-05:00 Daniel Rodriguez <sadasant at gmail.com>:

> Thanks again Phill, I will do that!
>
> 2015-11-16 8:58 GMT-05:00 Phill Hogland <phill.hogland at rimage.com>:
>
>> As you work on the next step, you might also download the wix toolset
>> source zip archive for the version of the Wixtoolset that you are using.  I
>> find it useful to use Notepad++ or similar to search the source code for
>> examples of how a particular issue that I am trying to solve is addressed.
>> The source for the setup used to install the Wix Toolset is at src\Setup.
>> There is a Bundle project and several MSI package projects with a managed
>> WixBA project.  You will probably use the WixStandardBootstrapper
>> initially, but I found it worthwhile to study these projects as I was
>> learning the Wix ways.  There is also a CommonLib project showing how to
>> put common code in a wixlib.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On
>> Behalf Of Daniel Rodriguez
>> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 7:46 AM
>> To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
>> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Has anyone have made an installer that downloads
>> and installs dependencies first?
>>
>> 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.
>> >
>> > -----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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