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Estimated hours taken: 50 Branches: main Implement a Wix source file generator. Wix is an XML language used to describe Windows installer packages (.msi files). NEWS: Mention the new library. extras/Mmakefile: Include windows_installer_generator in SUBDIRS so it is built when mmake is run from the extras directory. extras/README: Mention the new library. extras/curs/curs.m: Use new module qualifier. extras/windows_installer_generator/README: extras/windows_installer_generator/wix.m: extras/windows_installer_generator/wix_files.m: extras/windows_installer_generator/wix_gui.m: extras/windows_installer_generator/wix_installer.m: extras/windows_installer_generator/wix_language.m: extras/windows_installer_generator/wix_util.m: Implement a wix library for generating Wix source files. extras/windows_installer_generator/sample/Mercury.options: extras/windows_installer_generator/sample/README: extras/windows_installer_generator/sample/gen_merc_wxs.m: extras/windows_installer_generator/sample/images/Exclam.ico: extras/windows_installer_generator/sample/images/Info.ico: extras/windows_installer_generator/sample/images/banner.bmp: extras/windows_installer_generator/sample/images/bg.bmp: Implement an example installer generator for the Mercury distribution.
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This is the top-level module for a Mercury Wix source file generator.
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WiX is an XML language that is used to generate Microsoft Windows Installer
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(.msi) packages.
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To compile the XML into an .msi file you need the WiX compiler, available
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from wix.sourceforge.net. You will also need a tool to generate
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GUID. GUIDs are unique identifiers that Windows uses to identify all
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the components in a package. A GUID generator for Linux is uuidgen.
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Microsoft Visual Studio also comes with a GUID generator, uuidgen.exe.
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For documentation on the toolkit API see wix.m in this directory.
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The predicate wix.installer.generate_installer will generate a .wxs file
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based on information in its arguments.
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The .wxs file can then be compiled to a .msi file using the Wix toolset.
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The following commands will generate <filename>.msi, given <filename>.wxs.
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candle <filename>.wxs
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light <filename>.wixobj
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NOTE that there are still a few features missing from the current
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implementation. For example the user cannot select different features of a
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product to install -- it's all or nothing. Also Windows installer error codes
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are not converted into friendlier error messages at the moment. The installer
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wizard is also not as customizable as it could be.
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To build the wix library execute the command:
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mmc --make libwix
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