[virt-tools-list] [PATCH virt-viewer] win: add virt-viewer-x86.msi build rule

Paolo Bonzini bonzini at gnu.org
Mon Feb 11 13:58:19 UTC 2013


Il 11/02/2013 14:53, Christophe Fergeau ha scritto:
>> > In order to build the MSI, you will need msitools:
>> > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/msitools/
>> > 
>> > Granted, the WiX syntax is quite verbose. I have ideas to provide a
>> > simpler syntax or an alternative for packaging entire directories in
>> > the future, so that all installed files would be packaged.
>> > 
>> > In v2:
>> > - remove wxi, generate fragment file with content of make install with
>> >   wixl-heat as suggested by Paolo Bonzini
> Looking at http://git.gnome.org/browse/msitools/tree/data/wixl , I see
> a  lot of .msi files there. How do we choose between having the .msi file
> shipped with msitools and having it shipped with virt-viewer?

Those are just for libraries, and I think that ultimately it would be
best if the respective RPMs took care of distributing them---not msitools.

Paolo




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