wireshark/packaging/wix
Gerald Combs fff15ba974 WiX: Fix another libxml2 variable.
Change-Id: If032c0876ab2ba80b8df7b84e1e1c8e8f1ac425c
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/32490
Reviewed-by: Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>
2019-03-20 17:19:03 +00:00
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CMakeLists.txt WiX: Fix another libxml2 variable. 2019-03-20 17:19:03 +00:00
COPYING.rtf
ComponentGroups.wxi Include the HTML IP map in the CG.WiresharkRequired component group. 2019-02-17 02:30:31 +00:00
DirectoryStructure.wxi WiX: Remove remaining GTK+ content. 2018-05-11 15:19:40 +00:00
Features.wxi Convert the FAQ to Asciidoctor and remove old help files. 2019-02-14 23:11:15 +00:00
InputPaths.wxi WiX: Build packages verbosely. 2018-12-19 22:58:43 +00:00
Plugins.wxi WiX: install the other plugin types as well 2018-03-03 10:12:35 +00:00
Prerequisites.wxi Windows: Update target version info 2018-03-02 10:53:29 +00:00
README Windows: upgrade Npcap to 0.99-r9 2019-01-23 14:46:38 +00:00
StringOverrides.wxl
UserInterface.wxi
Wireshark.wxs WiX: Options dialog updates. 2018-05-03 04:08:40 +00:00
WiresharkOptionsDlg.wxs WiX: Options dialog updates. 2018-05-03 04:08:40 +00:00
WiresharkWixUI.wxs WiX: Options dialog updates. 2018-05-03 04:08:40 +00:00
banner.bmp Remove executable bit, from not executable files. 2017-02-26 17:49:34 +00:00
banner.svg
dialog.bmp Remove executable bit, from not executable files. 2017-02-26 17:49:34 +00:00
dialog.svg
windeployqt-to-wix.ps1 Remove some references to Qt4. 2018-04-06 03:11:52 +00:00

README

WiX installer for Wireshark

This is currently an experimental feature to provide Wireshark with an .msi installer.
It is intended to replace the NSIS installer, but needs to be a little more complete
before doing so.

(Developer) Differences/notes compared to NSIS installer:
1. You need the WiX toolset to build the installer.  See http://wixtoolset.org/releases/
(v3.10 is recommended)
2. SNMP, Radius, Diameter, and Qt translations files are harvested to be included in
the installer.  Any custom/additional files just need to be written to the appropriate
build output directory and the installer will pick them up.  NSIS required modifying
a file (custom_mibs.txt, etc) for inclusion
3. Plugin DLLs are not automatically harvested.  To include your DLL, modify Plugins.wxi
4. To build the WiX installer run:
> msbuild /m /p:Configuration=RelWithDebInfo wix_package_prep.vcxproj
> msbuild /m /p:Configuration=RelWithDebInfo wix_package.vcxproj


Known issues:
1. It does not include installing Npcap or USBPcap (the NSIS installer does).  These
currently come as NSIS installers and it seems it would make more sense to "bundle" them
with WiX rather than include them as part of the Wireshark.msi.
2. Needs more flexible handling of VC CRT Merge module (need build script to provide
appropriate macros).  Something like (or modifying existing) FindMSVC_REDIST.cmake.
Currently only VS2013 / CRT120 and VS 2015 / CRT140 are supported.
3. Uninstalling previous versions.  NSIS installer did things more "manually" than Wix does
by default.  Need to merge as best as possible to handle backwards compatibility. The .msi
architecture uses an "UpgradeCode" help facilitate install/uninstall/upgrade and NSIS
installer doesn't have that.  The NSIS installer also removed whole directories instead of
just removing what it installed (still not sure if this is better or worse)


Patches welcome to address any of the issues above or improvements you think can be
made.