Re: GSoC project about binary packaging

[Patrick Noffke]

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Patrick Noffke
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Anirudha Bose <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi Patrick. I have spent some time studying the file you have attached. I
>> suppose you are using WiX v3.7. It seems the property LongName has been
>> deprecated in the version I am using (v4.0). Moreover I saw a few syntax
>> errors in your file which I have fixed now. It would be great if you clear
>> some of my questions (I realize that the learning curve of WiX is steep).
>
> Sorry, that was based on a very old example I did.  Could you please
> send the fixed version, or a diff against mxe-octave (whatever is
> easier at this point)?
>

Attached is a version that works with wixl (msi-tools) on Fedora 18.
It builds a .msi file that installs on XP.

I just hard-coded what I though was the path to the octave.exe file to
use.  This path (based on the build date) should probably be replaced
with a variable that is processed by sed as part of the build.

I added to the translations component all the files in the
dist/octave-2013-07-02-14-37/translations directory.  This would
probably be easier to script with wixl-heat as I showed in an earlier
email.

Patrick

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