This produces a wxs file with all the files in the directory specified, but needs some details updating: heat dir "pidgin-2.10.7/" -template product -gg -suid -sfrag
#GTK.ZIP FOR PIDGIN DOWNLOAD INSTALL#
To save generating by hand all the config required to install files from a directory, there is a tool supplied with wix called heat.
#GTK.ZIP FOR PIDGIN DOWNLOAD ZIP#
The other option is to take the pidgin-win32-bin zip file, and install all the files within this archive.Īs, Pidgin has about 700 fiiles in the archive, I initially looked at this option, until I saw suggestions of how this was bad practice to install an exe, then run it. The first is using a precompiled exe installer, and copying to the target machine, then executing silently. There are 2 options for deploying pidgin. A real tutorial is available here on .hu Deployment Options The wixobj file then needs to be compiled using light, hopefully producing a nice shiney msi file. This is then parsed using the candle program.
Put some xml together in a wxs file, detailing the files to be installed, source and destination locatons. Wix is an opensource microsoft tool for creating msi files. Currently, there are no official pidgin msi files, but it is my preferred client.
We already deploy updates for flash, adobe reader, java etc via msi files. A jabber service has been set up, but a client still needed to be deployed to all the end users. With its shutdown forthcoming, alternatives were needed.
The main office IM tool is currently msn messenger.
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