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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +msitools is a set of programs to inspect and build Windows Installer +(.MSI) files. It is based on libmsi, a portable library to read and +write .MSI files. libmsi in turn is a port of (and a subset of) Wine's +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). + +msitools uses libgsf in order to read OLE Structured Storage files +(which are the underlying format of .MSI files). As of December 7th, +2012 you need to build libgsf from git because a required bugfix is not +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. |