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2018-03-12Enable per user installations on WindowsThanos Doukoudakis
This patch will allow the installer to perform per-user installations that doesn't require elevated rights. If the Visual Studio prerequisites are missing, the installer will ask the user if he wants to install them. If the user chooses not to, the installer will deploy the necessary files in the installation folder. Installations for all users (per machine) are still available. Upon upgrading in per-user installs from previous versions, the user can still access the settings that were stored in the registry, but not the settings stored in system-settings.xml. Test-Information: Build and tested with Wix3.11, Qt 5.8 and Visual Studio 2015 on Windows 10 and Windows 7. Tested fresh install and upgrade, for per-machine and per-user installations. Tested the vcredist install and the dll deployment when the installation is not present. Verified that the installer uses the registry settings in per-user installations. Change-Id: I1879e2fb7ee347dab58852eb73d4ddddec15b35d
2015-03-27Improve Windows MSI installer upgrade experienceTobias Markmann
Previously every time WiX heat.exe ran it generated new GUIDs for all the file components that MSI was going to install. Windows installer deletes components if there is no software/component left that is referencing it. This patch uses the -ag flag instead of the -gg flag for heat.exe so it will generate deterministic GUIDs based on the filename and other things instead of completely random new one on each run. In addition we schedule the upgrade to run after the new version has been installed. This way old files are first replaced with the new ones, shortcuts remain and are not deleted, pinned shortcuts remain usable. Afterwards MSI uninstalls the old version, specifically the components that are not reference anymore. Test-Information: Tested (a) two version upgrade with this patch and (b) an upgrade from a version without this patch to a version with this patch. a) The upgrade works as expected. MSI installs the new version and then uninstalls the old version. The pinned shortcut stays alive and works. b) In this case during the deinstallation files of the new installation are deleted, since there are two components with different GUIDs which however use the same filenames. Running a repair on this installation, or first deinstalling the old version and then the new one manually fixes this. Change-Id: I842a288d837962e77efaa15b17d3877e923c7e49
2014-06-11Fix vcredist bundling in WIX installer.Richard Maudsley
Change-Id: I499db0b68cc5e492a35d931b146094446e183682
2012-11-15Uninstall Windows package before installing a new one.Remko Tronçon
Change-Id: I541f77f402da27f9da2148582db5330a710c1d15
2012-11-12Install VC redistributable using .exe file.Remko Tronçon
Change-Id: I7229c38118c1ee3f4b0ef5f752e513dfd5942ba7
2012-04-24Removing some unused comments.Remko Tronçon
2012-04-24Embed version in WiX file.Remko Tronçon
2012-04-24WiX updates.Remko Tronçon
Show icon in Add/Remove programs dialog. Support upgrading. Render COPYING file correctly. Resolves: #1096, #1094, #1093
2011-11-26Initial support for WiX installer.Kevin Smith
dist=1 on Windows now generates .msi instead, as long as wix_bindir is set to the path of \bin\ for WiX. nsis is no longer used