[mapguide-internals] Re: 32 bit installer on build machine

[Trevor Wekel]

Hey UV,

Developers shouldn't have to create installers.  It's too much of a hassle.  That's why we have a build machine.  And I also thought about doing a manual install myself... for about 30 seconds... Then I pinged Jackie on -internals.

Manual install is a hassle to do on Windows.  Click here, click there, virtual directory this, application that, still doesn't work.  Oops picked the wrong version of .Net.  Yuk.  Been there...  Done that... The installer does it better.

http://download.osgeo.org/mapguide/testing/MapGuideOpenSource-2.2.0.4686-Test.exe

Or if you really, really, really want to build an installer yourself

http://svn.osgeo.org/mapguide/trunk/Installer/scripts/
http://svn.osgeo.org/mapguide/trunk/Installer/scripts/buildmgx86.bat

The batch files are specific to the build machine and there are additional software packages needed to support the build and installation process (Java SDK, ant, doxygen, Wix, Paraffin).  It took a couple of days to set up.  Eventually the batch file will get rolled into an automated build process.  But it works for now.

Regards,
Trevor


-----Original Message-----
From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of UV
Sent: March 23, 2010 8:58 PM
To: MapGuide Internals Mail List
Subject: Re: [mapguide-internals] Re: 32 bit installer on build machine

Why is there no README file in the Installer top level directory with 
this information?
I could never find any info on how to get it to work so I gave up using 
this and had to install manually!

Documentation is essential! Whats the point of writing code nobody else 
can use?


Jackie Ng wrote:
> Hi Trevor,
>
> The build.bat has an -a=generate option that rebuilds the wxs files from
> scratch. The installer uses MgDev\Release as the default directory from
> where Paraffin will generate its file list.
>
> Because the MG output directory does not initially have the Apache, PHP and
> Tomcat binaries, these need to be copied over. The -a=prepare option
> fulfills this purpose.
>
> I usually have paraffin.exe inside the Installer root directory.
>
> After a successful run of MgDev\build.bat w/ default settings, I do the
> following from the Installer directory:
>
> build.bat -a=prepare
> build.bat -a=generate
> build.bat
>
> - Jackie
>   

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