WIX Cookbook

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The Windows Installer XML (opens in a new tab) (WiX) is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code. The toolset supports a command line environment that developers may integrate into their build processes to build MSI and MSM setup packages. This cookbook installs the full WiX suite of tools.

Maintainers

This cookbook is maintained by the Sous Chefs. The Sous Chefs are a community of Chef cookbook maintainers working together to maintain important cookbooks. If you’d like to know more please visit sous-chefs.org or come chat with us on the Chef Community Slack in #sous-chefs.

Requirements

Platforms

Windows 7
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows 8, 8.1
Windows Server 2012 (R1, R2)

Chef

Chef 13.4+

Cookbooks

windows 2.0+

Attributes

node['wix']['home'] - location to install WiX files to. default is %SYSTEMDRIVE%\wix
node['wix']['checksum'] - SHA256 of the WiX binaries zip file. default is 03b8f46cb3abf1465fe8f9975a94a4e0f75c77267ff4d1fcb6d5b6a97567f549

Usage

default.rb

Downloads and installs WiX to the location specified by node['wix']['home']. Also ensures node['wix']['home'] is in the system path.

Contributors

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Backers

Thank you to all our backers!