[wix-users] WIX MSI Creation not using VS

[Phill Hogland]

If you had access to the .wixproj file created by VS (or you can create one from scratch), then MSBuild has been shipped as a part of .Net and you can "build" your .wixproj and .wxs, .wxl, and .wxi files without having any VS installed (I think, have not done it).  So it would be helpful to start from a project created by VS and just edit that project in your favorite editor (notepad++) and launch msbuild to create the msi packages.  I do this all the time, but I do have VS installed on my system.   With VS2013 MSBuild 12 is shipped with VS2013, but you can still use MSBuild 4 with .Net 4.  The wix source has lots of examples of .wixproj files and of using MSBuild to build a chain of project files.

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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Moreno, Miguel Alexis
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 4:53 PM
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I will run through that tutorial and see if it helps me accomplish what I need done.  It does look promising.

Thanks,
Alex


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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Phill Hogland
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 5:30 PM
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This link has some basic steps used to create a MSI installer using an XML editor and command line calls. (I did not look it over in detail.  The Wixtoolset CHM often has command line examples in each the howto documents.
http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/105638/A-quick-introduction-Create-an-MSI-installer-with

But maybe I misunderstood your question, and you are using VS to create the project, but you want to know how to build it without using VS.

If you have a project.wixproj file, which describes your project, then you can invoke MSBuild to build it, something like this:

call " %programfiles(x86)%\MSBuild\12.0\Bin\msbuild.exe" "[path_to_your_project]\[project].wixproj"

You might need to use /p:PropertyName=value pairs to configure your build.

Phill

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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Moreno, Miguel Alexis
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 4:10 PM
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Subject: [wix-users] WIX MSI Creation not using VS

I have been going through many of the tutorials of using WIX and have done OK.   However, I am trying to create an MSI package using just WIX and with not using VS project.

Is there a tutorial or documentation of creating or doing such a task?

Thanks,
AlexM.


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