Hi Krishna,
There are a couple of archives, the main one I guess is on Sourceforge,
but I found that slow and almost unusable. There are some independent
ones such as:
http://www.mail-archive.com/wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net/
and
http://www.nabble.com/wix-users-f4470.html
As for your question, I'll try and provide a generic answer. If the the
installers for Tomcat and PostgreSQL are *not* MSI packages, then you
could look at doing the following.
You basically install it by using a combination of a binary table entry
and a custom action, so first you add:
<Binary Id='MyExecutable' SourceFile='MyExecutable.exe' />
<CustomAction Id='InstallMyExecutable' BinaryKey='MyExecutable' />
Then following that you need to tell WiX when to execute the binary, so
you add something like this for your InstallExecuteSequence:
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action='InstallMyExecutable' After='InstallInitialize' />
</InstallExecuteSequence>
That is basically the only additionally things you would need. Obviously
in your case you might need to do one for each of the installers
(meaning you'd add another Binary and CustomAction element, and then add
that new Custom Action element with the InstallExecuteSequence).
HOWEVER, if we go back to not being able to do it if they are MSI files
(or contain MSI files), in this case you need to use a bootstrap - which
I currently am in the middle of doing right now via NSIS. Now when it
comes to bootstrapping there is currently no standard (at least from
what I can gather) and as such you need to look at what others are
doing, or come up with something that feels good for you - that's how I
got to NSIS. Anyway, to get you started on bootstrapping, use the above
archives to do a search, and that should get you started.
Good luck,
Ian.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Krishna K
Sent: Friday, 13 July 2007 9:36 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] how to spawn tomcat installer from the installer I
ambuilding?
Hi All,
I am new to WIX. I am sure this is answered before. But I couldn't find
in the archives. I want to call the Tomcat and PostgreSQL installer
before installation of my application. How do I achieve this in WIX. Any
help is highly appreciated.
Thanks
Krishna
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