Re: [Condor-users] Building Windows Installer

[Pascal Jermini <pascal+condor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

> So, I want to build a custom Windows installer for Condor.  I've done  
> this a few times for the Mac system, but it seems that the Windows  
> side of things is significantly more complicated.  I've used Orca to  
> edit the .msi file to include some options that I wanted, but now I  
> want to add a file to the installer and would love to be able to  
> include a customized condor_config.local file.  Has anyone here built  
> their own windows installer and could help me get started?

We managed to build our own MSI installer for Condor, by using the WIX
toolkit...unfortunately the process is not completely automated, since it
still requires some manual interaction.

I think that the best way to get started (without using Orca) is to
"decompile" the official MSI (WIX provides a tool to do this, called "dark"),
modify the resulting XML files to include your customized condor_config.local,
and then rebuild the MSI with WIX (by using the "candle" and "light" tools in
sequence...)

If you just have to add an additional file, the process should be relatively
straightforward...(never tried it that way though...so you may hit a
snag...but it's worth a try)

Pascal