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include tools necessary for building extensions in installer #2359

Open wixbot opened 14 years ago

wixbot commented 14 years ago

In order to build a WiX compiler extension, I needed to check out the source from CVS (since the source package is missing files needed to build), convince it to build at least a little (which was quite an ordeal for me, being my first attempt to deal with building .NET stuff), and extract the following files: WixBuild.dll XsdGen.exe FlattenXml.exe

I also needed to extract chunks of WixBuild.Common.targets to set up several tasks, like EmbeddedFlattenedResource and XsdGenSource. Then I needed to run sn -k to get the files I built to work on a co-worker's machine.

Perhaps a VS project type for WiX extension would help, getting all the targets set up in the csproj.

Originally opened by jeremyd2019 from http://sourceforge.net/p/wix/feature-requests/519/

wixbot commented 12 years ago

I second this request...it was very difficult for me to get an extension working as well.

wixbot commented 10 years ago

Originally changed by barnson Area changed from build process to sdk Release set to v3.x