Re: GSoC project about binary packaging

[John W. Eaton]

On 07/09/2013 12:16 PM, Michael Goffioul wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Patrick Noffke <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     I tried adding UI elements as described here:
>     http://wix.tramontana.co.hu/tutorial/user-interface
>
>     It seems msitools does not support the WixUI user interface library.
>     This is apparently derived from the MSI SDK.  The download link on the
>     above page takes you to an installer for the Platform SDK.  I'm trying
>     to install that now to see if I can find what they're referring to,
>     and to see if it would be possible to use this in msitools.
>
>
> Hmmm, I don't like the sound of that. You can't expect people to install
> Platform SDK to do a MinGW build/installer, moreover when
> cross-compiling I'm not even sure you would be able to install it
> (without accepting some license agreement...?)

I haven't been following this discussion closely.  Could someone 
summarize?  What was wrong with using an NSIS installer?  It seems it 
was possible to use that in cross builds as well as native, correct?

jwe