You wouldn't choose Windows Installer as an install engine if you want a pure exe installer. That said, it depends why exactly an exe is a requirement. You could use something like WinZip or IExpress to wrap the MSI file into an executable that would run, extract the MSI and start it, but it's still an MSI file setup and may or may not satisfy the requirement.
Phil Wilson On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 2:55 AM, Blair Murri <os...@live.com> wrote: > 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. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > October Webinars: Code for Performance > > Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. > > Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most > from > > the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > > > > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > October Webinars: Code for Performance > Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. > Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most > from > the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
