Calling of one install from another is called chaining. It's not that
WiX doesnt support chaining....Not being able to "Chain" installs is a
limitation imposed by Windows Installer technology which WiX uses. So
any MSI you build has this limitation whether it's built using WiX or
otherwise.
However, you can get around that limitation by using another program
that runs each installer separately. That way one installer is not
calling another. This type of program is called a bootstrapper.
There appears to be a number of bootstrappers around depending on the
environment you develop in. I believe Visual Studio may have one built
in. WiX will be adding a bootstrapper to its tools in the future when
WiX V3.5 becomes available if you can wait for that.
Chris
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From: Yu, Brian [mailto:
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Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 06:19
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Third-party installation
Try using this
http://dotnetinstaller.codeplex.com/As far as I know, WIX doesn't support multiple msi's
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From: MacDiarmid, James D [mailto:
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Sent: 01 July 2009 16:21
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] Third-party installation
All,
I have a couple third-party installers, such as the SOAP toolkit, I need
to kick off during my installer. This file does not get installed with
the rest of the application. How would I go about setting that up?
Thanks,
Jim
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