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@@ -6,11 +6,17 @@ implementation of the Windows Installer. msitools plans to be a solution for packaging and deployment of cross-compiled Windows applications. -While in a very early stage, it is already usable. Two tools are -provided, msiinfo and msibuild, respectively to inspect and create -MSI files. They are very low-level, but it should already be possible -to use these tools to take an existing .MSI file, and update it with -new build products (for example after a cross-compilation). +Provided tools include: + +- msiinfo, to inspect MSI files + +- msibuild, a low-level tool to create MSI files + +- wixl, a WiX-like tool, that builds Windows Installer (MSI) packages + from an XML document, and tries to share the same syntax as the WiX + toolset, http://wixtoolset.org/ + +While in a very early stage, it is already usable. msitools uses libgsf in order to read OLE Structured Storage files (which are the underlying format of .MSI files). As of December 7th, @@ -18,4 +24,8 @@ msitools uses libgsf in order to read OLE Structured Storage files found in any release. Fedora packages for a fixed libgsf can be found at http://bonzini.fedorapeople.org/. -For more information, contact me at pbonzini@redhat.com. +Wixl lacks many features compared to WiX. As always, contributions +are welcome! + +For more information, please contact us by email. Forking and sending +github pull requests is also welcome. |