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unix friendly recipe to create msi package

This is an HOWDOI build an msi package from a non windows machine.

It s not very difficult, but its time consuming, especially the first time.

Requirements

  • vagrant, get the source from the website, not from your distro or brewer
  • virtualbox, afaik the box i use requires it
  • at least 20GB space
  • some time ahead

Machine setup

Start by installing vagrant using the sources available here

Install virtualbox from here (I can t remember if the distro packages are fine, let me know if you try it)

Install the vagrant plugins

vagrant plugin install winrm
vagrant plugin install vagrant-winrm
vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
vagrant plugin install vagrant-share

Initialize a new windows vagrant box on root of your directory with a content similar to this one

A that point you should be ready to up the machine,

vagrant up

And get yourself a coffee. At first init it will start to download the vagrant image which is about 14GB.

Once the machine is up, ensure winrm works correctly

vagrant winrm -c "dir C:\\vagrant"

The command should display your project files.

From your local computer, download wix msi package,

wget -O wix310-binaries.zip http://wixtoolset.org/downloads/v3.10.3.3007/wix310-binaries.zip
# or
curl -O http://wixtoolset.org/downloads/v3.10.3.3007/wix310-binaries.zip

unzip wix310-binaries.zip -d wix310

Copy wix310 folder, clean your copy

vagrant winrm -c "xcopy /E /I C:\vagrant\wix310 C:\wix310"
rm -fr wix310
rm -fr wix310-binaries.zip

Register wix bin path to PATH

vagrant winrm -c "setx PATH \"%PATH%;C:\\wix310\""

Confirm its up to date by running this command

vagrant winrm -c "heat.exe -v"

From your local computer, download go-msi msi package,

wget -O go-msi.msi https://github.com/mh-cbon/go-msi/releases/download/0.0.22/go-msi-amd64.msi
# or
curl -O https://github.com/mh-cbon/go-msi/releases/download/0.0.22/go-msi-amd64.msi

Trigger go-msi setup on the remote windows machine,

vagrant winrm -c "msiexec.exe /i C:\\vagrant\\go-msi-amd64.msi /quiet"

At that point, the machine is ready

Those steps are to reproduce every time you destroy the machine.

If you only halt the machine, you can jump to the next section.

Generate the package

To generate the package, you can run

vagrant winrm -c "cd C:\\vagrant; go-msi make -m go-msi.msi --version 0.0.1 --arch amd64"

To test install your packages,

vagrant winrm -c "msiexec.exe /i C:\\vagrant\\go-msi-amd64.msi /quiet"

To uninstall your package,

vagrant winrm -c "msiexec.exe /uninstall C:\\vagrant\\go-msi-amd64.msi /quiet"

Generate a chocolatey package

Install chocolatey,

vagrant winrm -c 'iwr https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1 -UseBasicParsing | iex'

Generate the choco package,

vagrant winrm -c 'cmd.exe /c "cd C:\\vagrant\\ && go-msi.exe choco --input go-msi-amd64.msi --version 0.0.1"'

Test install the choco package,

vagrant winrm -c 'cmd.exe /c "cd C:\\vagrant\\ && choco install go-msi.0.0.1.nupkg -y'

Test uninstall the choco package,

vagrant winrm -c 'cmd.exe /c "cd C:\\vagrant\\ && choco uninstall go-msi -y'

Push the choco package,

vagrant winrm -c "cmd.exe /c \"cd C:\\vagrant\\ && choco push -k=\"'xxx'\" go-msi.0.0.1.nupkg\""

Then halt the machine.

The resulting msi package will be placed into your project root.

That's it

I hope it works for you too,

~~ Happy Coding