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cake-contrib / Cake.Mage

Cake addin providing Mage.exe support
https://cake-contrib.github.io/Cake.Mage/docs/
MIT License
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Setup.exe #3

Closed wahmedswl closed 8 years ago

wahmedswl commented 8 years ago

Hi, Setup.exe which is generated when published from Visual Studio doesn't get generated using Mage, is there something i am missing in configuration?

Thanks

phil-scott-78 commented 8 years ago

So Mage doesn't do the setup.exe part - that's another task that's ran by VS and MSBuild.

Honestly we don't build a setup.exe for our apps so I'm not terribly familiar with the processes involved there, but if I was going to build a setup using cake I'd go right to WiX. Another approach might be to use a custom MSBuild script to call GenerateBootstrapper. At that point I'd even think about going the full nine and using MSBuild to call Mage too. Might be easier than trying to get the two to play nicely.