[mapguide-internals] About the WiX installer

[Martin Morrison]

There are 2 totally different sets of API to support Unix vs Win32.  E.G. Win32 goes in as a service, Unix runs in the background as a daemon, these two while sounding close, are actually very different in how they are implemented and controlled.  I don't think there is any way to ever reconcile the two to use the same source.

Martin


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From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jackie Ng
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 4:23 AM
To: mapguide-internals at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapguide-internals] About the WiX installer


Sigh, looks like I'll have to scratch the Apache idea. 

I can't build the source as-is, and looking at the source distributions
available, they have a win32 and a unix source distro (why on earth do they
have two source code distros?????). Obviously the LinuxApt one the unix
distro, which explains why I couldn't build it! Guess we'll stick with the
current binary distro.

- Jackie



Jackie Ng wrote:
> 
> 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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