Simon has achieved a great progress in building on Windows. WIX perfectly
integrates into visual studio SLN, and than perfectly builds on app veyor))
no more cross builds:)
On Nov 2, 2017 1:32 PM, "Samuli Seppänen" <sam...@openvpn.net> wrote:
> On 01/11/2017 20:46, Simon Rozman wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >>
> >> Hi Simon,
> >>
> >> Speaking of MSIs... we are planning on moving from NSIS to MSI due to
> >> security issues like the one we fixed in previous release. At the
> moment four
> >> (other) people who have expressed interest in taking part in the
> "create MSI
> >> installers for OpenVPN" project. One of these people is me.
> >>
> >> Would you be interested in joining forces in this task?
> >
> > I'd love to. Count me in!
>
> Excellent!
>
> > I have been in the MSI packaging for about 10 years now - automated
> builds from command line, developed DLL custom actions in C/C++,
> localization, GUI, WiX etc.
>
> As you probably know, right now we produce Windows executables and
> installers on Linux using openvpn-build:
>
> <https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-build>
>
> It seems that WiX which you mention would probably be our tool of
> choice, given it is open source (MS-RL):
>
> <https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix3>
> <https://opensource.org/licenses/MS-RL>
>
> Do you know if WiX runs in Mono? That would allow us to produce
> installers directly from openvpn-build without having to have a separate
> Windows packaging computer in the build chain.
>
> --
> Samuli Seppänen
> Community Manager
> OpenVPN Technologies, Inc
>
> irc freenode net: mattock
>
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