Currently in WiX 3.x only Windows Installer is supported as the underlying
installation engine. There was a previous attempt to support ClickThrough but
that effort was deferred to 4.x, as are any other other installation engine
ideas that may be raised.
There are other non-MSI systems out there, but none offer the robustness (nor,
in many cases, the complexity) of Windows Installer/MSI. If you wish to have
the advantages of MSI in the form of an EXE then you will need to bootstrap it.
The WiX Burn bundle does offer several advantages over "raw MSI", so even if
you aren't requiring a bootstrapper it may still be advantageous to use it.
> Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 09:56:19 +0530
> From: onlynit...@gmail.com
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [WiX-users] Exe output required without bootstrapper
>
> Hi Experts,
>
> I have a requirement to keep the installer as a single exe instead of msi.
> Is there a way other than creating a bootstrapper to get exe. As there is
> no other/ additional action required from a bootstrapper.
> I am looking of a simple soution like selecting to generate exe instead of
> msi in the compile command.
>
> Any help to simplify the solution will be of great help.
>
> Thanks.
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