Rob, Thanks for getting me started. I simply wanted to confirm some things now.
When I use dark.exe - the output is three folders (binary, file and icon) and a .wxs file. The folders contain the files for the applications, etc... Is this the expected and desired output? To combine these, I can simply combine the contents of each folder and then Create a new .wxs file containing all the entries of the other .wxs files (minus and repetition, headers, etc...), correct? I should then be able to re-compile the new .msi file using light.exe then I need to worry about going back and creating a UI and making it pretty? Thanks!! Patrick J. Carter -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 3:57 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX, InstallShield and combining multiple MSIs Fastest way to get what you want working might be to use dark.exe to turn everything into its' respective Features and Components then creating a new Product element to contain them all. Just merging MSIs isn't possible since you have to consider how they all come together. On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Carter, Patrick < patrick.car...@stryker.com> wrote: > Thanks for the reply Bob. > > Is there a reasonable way of extracting the MSI's into their individual > components and features and then rebuilding them into a single install? > Sorry if the questions are naïve, I am reading documentation all through > Christmas to get up to speed! > > I have tried InstallShield and some of the command line tools in WiX for > extraction, but not being completely familiar with MSI I am hard pressed to > see if the extraction is correct or if I could combine two extracted MSI's > > > Patrick J. Carter > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 11:01 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX, InstallShield and combining multiple MSIs > > Carter, Patrick wrote: > > I have been tasked with building a CD-based "install" that check the > pre-reqs (this I can do) and get all these MSI's into one install so they > can be selected and de-selected as "features". > > > > You need a chainer. WiX's chainer is still in development. > > -- > sig://boB > http://joyofsetup.com/ > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and > easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and > easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > -- virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
