[wix-users] Open Source is must be EveryWhere (MBA using .Net)

[Mike Henseler]

When I joined the company I am with now, everything was written in NSIS.
I have since moved all our installers to MSI using WiX, but I sometimes use a compiled NSIS script to do CustomActions. Since a lot of the actions were already written in NSIS script.

I launch the NSIS compiled script.exe (CA) without a UI or in silent mode. In my case there is no CustomAction data handling required with these script, but if you needed to pass properties, you could pass them as cmd line arguments to the NSIS script.

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You could write a bootstrapper using open source NSIS script (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) https://nsis.sourceforge.io/Main_Page
use Modern UI

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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Open Source is must be EveryWhere (MBA using .Net)

Unfortunately, we need it because it's one of the requirements for product certification and also it's a new requirement from the cybersecurity department that applies to the runtime of compiled programming languages.

We designed a simple bootstrapper in C/C++ 15 years ago.
But I don't know how to make an attractive and modern UI in C/C++. Thus, it will be a new challenge.

I hope that WiX v4 will be released as soon as possible. Wish success.


вт, 14 дек. 2021 г. в 19:46, Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com>:

> WiX v4 will have support for .NET Core based BAs. In WiX v3, it'd be 
> easiest to use C/C++ to use "only open source code".
>
> Curious: Why do you need "to use only open source code"?
>
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> Hello to all!
>
> As you know, the .NET Framework is not open.
> However .Net and .Net Core are.
>
> We use WIX 3.11 to create installers, pack them into a bundle with a 
> custom MBA that is built using .Net Framework and WPF.
> We have received an important request recently: to use only open 
> source code.
> We need to create a work plan for how we achieve this goal for the 
> next year.
>
> So, is it possible with WIX nowadays? How?
> Are there any examples of implementation and documentation?
> Do you have any suggestions when it will be possible?
>
> Thanks for your hard work!
>
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