[wix-users] WIX MSI Creation not using VS

[Farrukh Waheed]

Following might be a good help for you.You need Heat (Wix Harvest Tool) for
this:
About Heat, the Harvest Tool
<http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/overview/heat.html>
WiX 3 Tutorial: Generating file/directory fragments with Heat.exe
<http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/mladenp/archive/2010/02/23/WiX-3-Tutorial-Generating-filedirectory-fragments-with-Heat.exe.aspx>
Components of a Different Color
<https://www.firegiant.com/wix/tutorial/com-expression-syntax-miscellanea/components-of-a-different-color/>

Hope these would be helpful.

On 6 October 2015 at 15:15, Phill Hogland <phill.hogland at rimage.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] WIX MSI Creation not using VS
>
> I will run through that tutorial and see if it helps me accomplish what I
> need done.  It does look promising.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
> Of Phill Hogland
> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 5:30 PM
> To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] WIX MSI Creation not using VS
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> To: wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
> 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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