SETUP.md

WiX Toolset Setup ↩

This document presents some WiX setup details on the Windows platform.

The archive file wix3x11-binaries.zip is available from GitHub project wixtoolset/wix3. We can just extract its contents to some location, e.g. into directory C:\opt\WiX-3.11.2\ in our case:

> pushd c:\opt\WiX-3.11.2&dir /ad/b&dir /b *.exe&popd
doc
sdk
x86
candle.exe    (compiler)
dark.exe
heat.exe      (WXS generator)
insignia.exe
light.exe     (linker)
lit.exe
lux.exe
melt.exe
nit.exe
pyro.exe
retina.exe
shine.exe
smoke.exe
ThmViewer.exe
torch.exe
WixCop.exe

Environment Variables

WiX tools recognize several environment variables:

• WIX defines the path of the installation directory.
• WIX_TEMP overrides the temporary directory used for CAB creation, MSM exploding, etc.

🔎 The WiX Burn Engine also offers a set of built-in variables to be used in WXS files.

In our case WIX is defined as follows:

> echo %WIX%
C:\opt\Wix-3.11.2

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