Ticket #882 (closed enhancement: fixed)

Opened 4 years ago

Last modified 4 years ago

Bootstrapper support for installer

Reported by: jng Owned by: jng
Priority: low Milestone: 2.2
Component: Installer Version:
Severity: trivial Keywords:
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Description

Allow the msi installer to be housed within a bootstrapper, that can be configured to installed any pre-requisites (eg. Visual C++ 2008 runtime, Windows Installer, .net Framework, etc)

Wix 3.0 includes tools to bootstrap msi installers.

Change History

Changed 4 years ago by jbirch

Like much of the WiX tips and tricks, this only appears to be documented on blog posts and in mailing lists. Here's a good link:

 Creating a Bootstrap Loader with WiX 3.0

Changed 4 years ago by jbirch

More potentially useful links:

 Chaining MSIs with WiX 3.0

 Wix bootstrapper setup.exe

 GenerateBootstrapper Task <- Maybe not so much

Changed 4 years ago by jng

  • status changed from new to closed
  • resolution set to fixed

Bootstrapper support (coupled with self-extracting executable builder) implemented in r3730

Changed 4 years ago by jng

  • status changed from closed to reopened
  • resolution fixed deleted

There is a flaw in the VS 2008 bootstrapper that interferes with the current self-extracting executable ( http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2009/02/20/9436778.aspx). Basically the self-extracting exe will delete the MGOS msi as setup.exe returns and tries to launch that msi.

Changed 4 years ago by jng

  • status changed from reopened to closed
  • resolution set to fixed

Fixed in r3748

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