Native Packaging WIX

[Will Hoover]

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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