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

[Edwin Castro]

It is possible that using Wine might work but I doubt many of us here would
jump at the prospect of supporting such techniques.

--
Edwin G. Castro


On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 11:11 AM Ven H <venh.123 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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