Opened 16 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

#882 closed enhancement (fixed)

Bootstrapper support for installer

Reported by: jng Owned by: jng
Priority: low Milestone: 2.2
Component: Installer Version:
Severity: trivial Keywords:
Cc: External ID:

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 (5)

comment:1 by jbirch, 16 years ago

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

comment:3 by jng, 16 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: new → closed

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

comment:4 by jng, 16 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: closed → reopened

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.

comment:5 by jng, 16 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: reopened → closed

Fixed in r3748

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