Hi, Anil
As far as I understand it (I might be not the one who knows it best), the WIX 
toolset is a set of tools that allows you to create .msi file, that can be then 
processed by Windows Installer. Windows Installer is a program that comes with 
Windows. So first of all I would say that .msi files intent to be used to 
install your program on machine that runs Windows.
So the whole chain is like:
1)You use your tools to develop the application (VisualStudio, NetBeans, 
notepad or whatever.)
2)You build your application into dlls, resource files, executables
3)You use WIX to create deployment solution that can be executed by Windows 
Isntaller

So, what is your question again?
" But now i want to execute the same build tool on different OS to create MSI 
packages."
Why would you like to crate .msi on another platform (Linux for example) if 
this .msi can only run on Windows and cannot run on another platform?
If the question you ask really is "Can I use WIX toolset to create setups for 
platforms other than Windows?" then I would say nope.

If you are developing some code, that is cross platform, write it cross 
platform in any IDE in any OS, than deploy it for Windows using WIX, and deploy 
it for other OS using another appropriate tool.

I hope I understood  your question correct.
Regards

-----Original Message-----
From: ak m [mailto:wixak...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 09:25
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] Create MSI package with out installing Wix on Target 
machine

Dear all,

I have a build tool, in which i am using msbuild to build the wix project to 
create MSI package.
Here i have installed .net framework and Wix.

But now i want to execute the same build tool on different OS to create MSI 
packages.
Here i have to install .net framework and Wix again.


Suppose if i want to create on other OS, i need to install Wix again...

Is there a way to create MSI packages without installing wix? i.e can i copy 
any run-time required files and simply  do the package..

Anyone please help me on this...


Best Regards,
Anil

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