[wix-users] WIX MSI Creation not using VS

[Phil Wilson]

There's WixEdit too.

http://wixedit.sourceforge.net/

Phil  

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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of
Farrukh Waheed
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 10:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] WIX MSI Creation not using VS

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-Genera
ting-filedirectory-fragments-with-Heat.exe.aspx>
Components of a Different Color
<https://www.firegiant.com/wix/tutorial/com-expression-syntax-miscellanea/co
mponents-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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