[wix-users] Converting NSIS to WIX

[Linda Pagillo]

Thanks Rob. I'm currently reading through the WIX documentation at
FireGiant. Very good tutorials and information. Do you guys offer
development services? I need to get an installer together pretty quickly and
since I'm so new at this, I feel like it will take months to create one. I
would like to have someone take a look at my NSIS installer and maybe get me
started in the right direction with building one in WIX. 

Linda Pagillo
MicroNeil Research Corporation
www.microneil.com
703.779.4909 x7016


-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of
Rob Mensching
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 11:33 AM
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: [wix-users] Converting NSIS to WIX

Very different approaches to installation NSIS and the Windows Installer.
NSIS is a procedural script, Windows Installer is a declarative transaction.
So you need to think differently. A general source code converter is not
really possible (NSIS may be Turing complete).

Anyway, yeah, it's a different sort of task. We've done a few of these
conversions at FireGiant. I've come to really not care much for NSIS during
these conversions but I understand why installation novices might gravitate
to its procedural nature (which funny enough is also its fundamental flaw,
IMHO).

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-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of
Linda Pagillo
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 5:29 AM
To: wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
Subject: [wix-users] Converting NSIS to WIX

Good day everyone. This is my first post to the list. I started researching
WIX a few days ago and to say the least, I'm as green as they come in
reference to it. I have a complex program which has a working installer
built with NSIS. I did not write the NSIS installer or the program which it
installs. The installer was written about 10 years ago by a former
co-worker. My goal is to completely re-write the installer from the ground
up using WIX. I need to accomplish this fairly quickly, but looking at the
WIX tutorials and documentation, I don't believe this is going to be a quick
process. My question is. is there any way to convert an NSIS script to WIX
format? If not, is there anyone out there who is willing to help me at least
plan out the project? There are many variables that come into play with my
program. For example, my program can run with several mail server platforms.
I need the installer to give choices upon launch so that the person
installing it can choose which mail server they have running etc. Thanks in
advance for your guidance.  

 

Linda Pagillo

MicroNeil Research Corporation

 <http://www.microneil.com> www.microneil.com

703.779.4909 x7016

 


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