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Open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing.
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[Windows] Move existing InstallShield installer to the WiX Toolset #5065

Open AenBleidd opened 1 year ago

AenBleidd commented 1 year ago

~This tasks is blocked by #5064~

Currently there are two installers that could be generated with the InstallShield:

  1. BOINC x64
  2. BOINC x64 with VirtualBox

As a result of this task 3 WiX Toolset projects should be made with the next configurations:

These projects should be integrated into the existing MSVS solutions as a 2 separate projects:

Resulting installer should...:

Currently some custom actions are built inside boinccas.dll.

AenBleidd commented 1 year ago

According to the comparation table in #5064 , the best tool to use is WiX Toolset: https://wixtoolset.org/