[wix-users] WiX Toolset & MSI for Linux / Mac

[Ven H]

Thank you very much Edwin. I just wanted to hear it from an expert like
you. There are some confusing articles which talk about using Wine or
something like that. But your explanation makes it much more clear.



On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 9:35 PM Edwin Castro <egcastr at gmail.com> wrote:

> The WiX Toolset cannot be used to install software on non-Windows systems.
>
> My current understanding is the WiX Toolset depends on .NET Framework v2.0
> which does not support non-Windows hosts. Additionally, the WiX Toolset
> depends on Win32 APIs via pInvoke to produce MSIs which are not generally
> available on non-Windows systems. These requirements currently stop the WiX
> Toolset to be used on non-Windows systems to create installers for Windows.
>
> I'm sure someone will correct any mistakes I have made.
>
> --
> Edwin G. Castro
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2021, 00:55 Ven H via wix-users <
> wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
>
>> Not sure if this has been raised before. I wanted to know whether
>> WiXToolset & MSI is supported on Linux & Mac. Please let me know.
>>
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