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List:       openjdk-openjfx-dev
Subject:    Native Packaging WIX
From:       zonski () gmail ! com (Daniel Zwolenski)
Date:       2012-12-21 22:26:42
Message-ID: 0DB535A7-8A38-482A-B4AE-ABAF0FFBA548 () gmail ! com
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Wix is ready - sorted the licensing and the technical. It's actually sitting in a \
staged repo in Sonatype and all I have to do is push the go button. I was just about \
to when another guy contacted me and said he wanted to use it too but wanted to split \
it into smaller bundles. Good idea but more work. 

Now that the packaging code is open sourced I might just push the big wix bundle \
through and split it all up as a later task. Will send the other guy an email to see \
if he's good with that. 

I've got code ready on the maven plugin side to download and extract wix (I extract \
it into the m2 directory where the artifact has been downloaded, but I'll make this \
configurable). The only missing piece is the changes to the jfx build tool and the \
only thing holding that up is working out how to build it :)

I'm currently getting a build error that looks like something to do with Visual \
Studio not finding libraries used by the winlauncher.exe. Does anyone know what \
version/edition of VStudio I'm suppose to have installed to build this (or any other \
tips to get this working)?



On 22/12/2012, at 8:02 AM, "Will Hoover" <java.whoover at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the reference to the Jira issue. I couldn't have imagined how the
> lack of this feature could be such a pain for Maven users. I was unable to
> set the PATH environment variable within the POM because it needs to be set
> before Maven executes. I couldn't even use the maven-antrun-plugin because
> Maven uses the POM's directory for the ${user.dir} (and I certainly didn't
> want to convolute the project directory with the WIX binaries). So, what I
> ended up doing is using a hack via the maven-failsafe-plugin by setting the
> workingDirectory to a directory under the target where the WIX binaries are
> copied to (from maven-dependency-plugin unpack) as well as the JavaFX build
> (Maven filtered). The test class spawns off an Ant execution
> programmatically using the build file using the maven.plugin.classpath to
> access the ant-javafx.jar from the maven-failsafe-plugin dependencies. It
> works only because the ${user.dir} (aka workingDirectory) points to the same
> directory where the build and WIX binaries are copied to by Maven. Thus, the
> JavaFx bundler is able to recognize the "candle"/"light" commands when it
> executes the ProcessBuilder without setting the PATH environment variable.
> It's an ugly hack, but it works!
> 
> It would definitely be nice to have the WIX binaries in the central Maven
> repo! How's that progressing (license wise)?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Zwolenski [mailto:zonski at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 3:02 PM
> To: Will Hoover
> Cc: <openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net>
> Subject: Re: Native Packaging WIX
> 
> Ive got a jira raised for this:
> 
> http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-26826
> 
> It should be easy. Now that the packaging code is open sourced I should be
> able to make this change myself. Just got to get the build working. 
> 
> I'm also working on getting the wix executables into the central maven repo
> and the intent is to make my maven plugin auto download and setup wix (it
> doesn't need to be "installed", just unzipped). Using Ant+ivy it should be
> possible to achieve the same.
> 
> 
> On 22/12/2012, at 6:45 AM, "Will Hoover" <java.whoover at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > AFIK, in order to use JavaFX packaging with WIX you have to first add 
> > the path to the WIX binaries to the PATH environment variable (or have 
> > the binaries in the user.dir for which the ant build is being ran). I 
> > don't suppose we could get an additional attribute added to fx:deploy 
> > so we can do
> > this:
> > 
> > <fx:deploy basedir="/path/to/wix"/>
> > 
> > Similar to how version 8 will have:
> > 
> > <fx:platform basedir="/path/to/jdk"/>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 


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