I'm building 2 different MSI with Visual Studio Setup Project. One for x86 and x64. But i couldn't find a way to combine both into one project so that the bootstrapper is installing the correct platform version.
Is there a way to do so in VS Setup Project or are are there any free 3rd party tools i can use? I found dotnetinstaller, but i'm not sure if that is what i'm looking for.
You can use WiX bootstraper: More info can be found here: http://www.wixwiki.com/
An example how to build both 32 and 64 bit MSIs you will find here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2007/08/09/4317654.aspx
You could write a native app and have it check if the system is x86 or x64 then have it write the correct installer to a temp directory and run it. I wrote a blog post that could probably get you started at http://blog.foldertrack.com/?p=45
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I am trying to compile mod_auth_openidc module on windows 7 64bit os
I got source code from
Source Code from github
I tried to build this module using visual studio 2015 but it was throwing an error "You must use GNU compiler".
From last few days am trying to build this in windows but ...
Could you please help me to build this module in windows or if any one done this in windows can you please share build steps.
Thanks...
It would be best to download the binary that is compiled for Windows from the release page but if you insist you can follow the guidelines from: http://wgsnetman.blogspot.nl/2013/04/building-apache-244-from-unix-source.html with a lot of adaptations/workarounds...
The code for mod_auth_openidc was forked to this git repository https://github.com/dematic-spe/mod_auth_openidc.
The build steps as documented on that page are:
bootstrap-windows.cmd
build.cmd - the output is in the tartet folder. The output is two zip files, one for x86 and one for x64.
deploy_to_artifactory.cmd
There were a couple of minor edits to the code so that it would also compile for win32 as well. It used the microsoft vcpkg project which is great at compiling a lot of opensource code for windows. I tested it all with VC2019.
I am very new to the installer world.
I have successfully made an .msi for my application and it is building with short-cuts and also uninstalls correctly.
My next goal is to package .Net 4.5 with the installer and have it be installed prior to the installation of my application.
I also have a third party application that needs to be installed. It is packaged as an msi.
From what I can gather I need to develop a Bootstraper solution to have these applications install in sequence.
Can anyone provide a guide as to how to implement an installer in such a way? My searches have come up with a bunch of partial implementations with an assumption of the design of a Wix Bootstrapper Project in Visual Studio.
I hope this helps someone. It took me 5 hours to figure it out. Maybe, my bad, but did not find anything about it in the docs or blogs.
So my scenario is: VS 2012, WIX 3.6 with Burn bootsrapper, create a Setup executable in order to check .NET Framework 4.5 and install it by downloading if not installed already. Sounds simple. And it is. Actually very.
Create your MSI installer project (WIX Setup Project), to produce an installer for your application.
Create a WIX Bootstrapper Project for your Setup executable.
Follow the instructions here, to create your Boundle.wxs
Add a reference to the WixNetFxExtension.dll which can be found in the WIX program directory.
Include the following line in your Chain:
<PackageGroupRef Id="NetFx45Redist"/>
Actually the WixNetFx extension contains a working install package definition for the .NET Framework 4.5.
As caveman_dick mentioned, Burn in WiX 3.6 supports this but you may also want to take a look at dotNetInstaller (http://dblock.github.com/dotnetinstaller/). We use it to install .NET 4.0 but I'm sure it works for installing 4.5 as well. It can also install other MSI dependencies very easily.
All my .net applications take their version from one C# version file.
lets call it version.cs.
How can i make one WIX project set the version according to this file?
I saw :
How can I set the WiX installer version to the current build version?
but it cannot help me because I am wrapping several DLL and some of them may have the correct version and some not.
How can I Bind the version from C# file?
WiX has no support for this. You'd have to write some build automation to extract the version from the cs file and pass it to WiX's command line at build time.
Personally what I do is use build automation to own the build version and push it into both WiX and C#. Since I'm using TFS Team Build there are libraries already written ( TFSVersioning ) that do this for me.
setup and deployment project template is missing in my installtion is there any alternate for that are please let me know the download link from msdn...
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An Alternative would be the NSIS Installer.
P.s.: Yes, I've read his question...
we are looking to automate an MSI generation for a product we are developing. Currently we have MSBuild building out the source to a network location, this is fine for testing but when it comes to releasing the software we will need to wrap it in an MSI.
The software is all .Net bar 1 COM component that will need registered on each machine it gets installed to.
What I was wondering was how to integrate Wix with MSBuild so that a new wix script will get generated along with an MSI that is able to handle fresh and upgrade installs.
Any help with this is very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Brendan
Sure, there are tasks in MS Build that can do all you need to build an MSI from WiX. Can you integrate this on a build / integration server?
Newer builds of Wix actually include a file called "wix.targets", which should get you started.
Also check out these fine articles on the topic:
Building with Wix.Targets (by Heath Stewart)
Wix Target for MSBuild (by Willem Meints)
Automate Releases With MSBuild And Windows Installer XML (by Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi) (Web archive link for archived msdn magazine)
They cover the topic in much more detail and are extremely helpful to get started.
You should download and install Votive. This will create a Visual Studio project file which you can use with MSBuild to create a WiX-based MSI.
There is also a topic in the WiX manual about how to integrate with MSBuild called Using WiX with MSBuild.