Add GNOME msitools (wixl) to macOS and Ubuntu

[codefromthecrypt]

Tool name

wixl

Tool license

LGPL 2.1

Add or update?

• Add
• Update

Desired version

0.101

Approximate size

460k

Brief description of tool

wixtoolset is pre-installed on Windows2019 right now, and includes candle.exe and light.exe used to process an XML file with extension .wxs into a Microsoft Installer (.msi). GNOME msitools includes a command that combines candle and light called wixl.

URL for tool's homepage

https://wiki.gnome.org/msitools

Provide a basic test case to validate the tool's functionality.

echo abc > test.txt
cat > test.wxs <<'EOS'
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi">
   <Product Id="*" UpgradeCode="C2F340C4-30CF-44EE-95F9-8D3F6E9A4345"
            Name="Test" Version="1.0.0" Manufacturer="BigCo" Language="1033">
      <Package InstallerVersion="200" Compressed="yes" Comments="Windows Installer Package"/>
      <Media Id="1" Cabinet="product.cab" EmbedCab="yes"/>
      <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
         <Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder">
            <Directory Id="INSTALLDIR" Name="test">
               <Component Id="ApplicationFiles" Guid="6F6D20A8-B31D-4BAB-85CE-F3E54567F3B8">
                  <File Id="ApplicationFile1" Source="test.txt"/>
               </Component>
            </Directory>
         </Directory>
      </Directory>
      <Feature Id="DefaultFeature" Level="1">
         <ComponentRef Id="ApplicationFiles"/>
      </Feature>
   </Product>
</Wix>
EOS
wixl test.wxs
test -f test.msi

Virtual environments affected

• Ubuntu 16.04
• Ubuntu 18.04
• Ubuntu 20.04
• macOS 10.15
• macOS 11
• Windows Server 2016
• Windows Server 2019

Can this tool be installed during the build?

In homebrew, `wixl` is inside the [msitools package](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/msitools.rb), while on ubuntu, `wixl` is in a package called `wixl`.

Tool installation time in runtime

<1m

Are you willing to submit a PR?

prefer help

[codefromthecrypt]

we should also add msiinfo, which is in the msitools package of ubuntu

[MaksimZhukov]

Hello @codefromthecrypt,
Thank you for the feature request. We would like to track popularity of it so we will keep the issue open for now.

[MaksimZhukov]

Hello @codefromthecrypt.
We would not like to bake this tool to the images due to its popularity and fast installation. Please, install it in runtime with the following code:

Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wixl

macOS

brew install msitools

I am closing the issue. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions. Thanks.