[mapguide-internals] About the WiX installer

[Jason Birch]

1. Yes, great idea.  That's been something I've been wanting for a _long_ time but wasn't able to figure out what the command line options to the ms build tools would have to be.  ADSK was going to contribute these, but turns out they're using a continuous build system not batch files :)
 
2.  If you can make that work, then more power to you.  Not being a developer, I wimped out from compiling and just grabbed from the previous installer.  Not having SVN cluttered with another (broken) copy of Apache would be a good thing.
 
Things only really get done in open source when developers feel empowered.  I'd suggest that you continue to talk about what you're doing here, but don't let it stop you from advancing unless there are radical shifts involved.  If you do something that is totally nuts, it can be rolled back :)
 
Jason

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From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on behalf of Jackie Ng
Sent: Thu 2009-02-26 3:17 AM
To: mapguide-internals at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapguide-internals] About the WiX installer




Okay, now that I have commit access. I want to lay out my current plans wrt
the (wix installer / build system), before I go and cause any damage :-)

1. One-click "build everything" batch files.

I was surprised that MapGuide did not have a batch file that would build
everything like FDO did. So I wrote one myself, which is based on the FDO
one and Jason's old build instructions here
(http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Building_MapGuide_on_Windows).

2. Use the Apache source in Oem\LinuxApt instead of maintaining a separate
binary distribution.

The reason I prefer using the Apache source is because building it as simple
as typing:

nmake /f Makefile.win _apacher
nmake /f Makefile.win installr INSTDIR=theinstallationdirectory

This does not incur any additional overhead in pre-requisite libraries. It
also has the side benefit of being synchronised with the Linux Apt package
(whenever the apache distro is updated, so will this one)

Thoughts?

- Jackie


Jackie Ng wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to grok the WiX installer files. When trying to build the wix
> installers, it is erroring out because it can't find a whole load of
> files.
>
> Given a checkout of the mapguide svn trunk, what do I need to do to ensure
> the wix installers build without problems?
>
> - Jackie
>

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