[wix-users] Creating a NuGet package from a WiX Library

[Christopher Painter]

I talked to (the) (one of the?) nuget guys years ago.  I didn't see how NuGet did anything for deployment.  To me it's an NPM type package manager that is an easy button for developers to pull dependencies in.   If you happen to use publish profiles / cloud deployment your not even thinking about deployment actually.  If your thinking MSI your thinking  merge modules,  wixlibs, chaining and so on.  I mentioned all of this and I got the impression he thought I didn't know what I was talking about and was ready to get off the phone.

Where do you see WiX v4 and NuGet working together?

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From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> on behalf of Rob Mensching via wix-users <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 3:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Creating a NuGet package from a WiX Library

As you've found, NuGet doesn't really play well with WiX v3 (WiX v3 was designed long before NuGet came to be). This is improving in WiX v4.


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From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of Vanniekerk, Tyrel (GE Healthcare) via wix-users
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 1:05 PM
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Cc: Vanniekerk, Tyrel (GE Healthcare) <tyrel.vanniekerk at ge.com>
Subject: [wix-users] Creating a NuGet package from a WiX Library

Hi,

This is probably an odd question 😃, but do you happen to know what I have to do to get the output from a WiX library into a NuGet package that will work correctly when added to a WiX setup project?  I download the source code for the Wix.Toolset NuGet package and that adds some XML to the wixproj manually.  I assume I will have to do something similar.

The second question is how to get a regular NuGet package to work with the Wix Setup project.  I have a base CustomActions assembly that we have in a NuGet package on our local NuGet server.  When I try to add that I get an error that my NuGet package does not support the targets type of “Unsupported”.

Thanks,
Tyrel


You are trying to install this package into a project that targets 'Unsupported,Version=v0.0'

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