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又整合了两篇文章，关于使用tallow.exe的

近时不断深入研究Wix，终于将setup的界面部分搞懂，并制做了一个比较好看的界面。接下来就是要制做文件表。

看了这么久的Wix，我知道需要使用工具tallow.exe制作文件表。我还没用过，试用了一下，果然极其好使。它会将源目录下所有文件找出来列表，并自动生成wxs文件，它是一个Fragment。
用完之后，发现不能卸载这些文件，觉得应该是GUID的问题。前些时候一直关注Wix的文章，依稀记得以前看贴的时候有人就发现tallow.exe不能产生GUID的BUG，于是就翻出这篇文章照着改。果然有效。
改完后运行一下wix源文件根目录下的make.bat，它就自动将Wix toolset编译了一次。看着命令行编译，似乎与Linux下的差不多，呵呵~也挺好使的，用惯了图形界面编译，感觉有些别钮。
完了后用了新的tallow，非常好，能生成GUID了。
想想e Joel Test的软件开发成功 12 法则，第二条，你们可以把整个系统从源码到ＣＤ映像文件一步建成吗？现在我可以有把握地回答：“是”了，虽然暂时还没有实现。

WiX Tips and Tricks: Part 2 - Tallow, Component GUID's and Uninstallation
Included with the WiX toolset is a tool called Tallow. This tool is meant for the purpose of walking a directory tree to produce valid Fragments containing Directories, Components and Files. Unfortunately though, when using the tool you don't get a "Guid" attribute on each "Component" element as seen in the below example:

C:/wix>tallow -d ./doc -nologo
<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2003/01/wi">
<Fragment>
    <DirectoryRef Id="TARGETDIR">
      <Directory Id="directory0" Name="doc">
        <Component Id="component0" DiskId="1">
          <File Id="file0" Name="vssver2.scc" src="C:/wix/doc/vssver2.scc" />
          <File Id="file1" Name="WiX.chm" src="C:/wix/doc/WiX.chm" />
          <File Id="file2" Name="wix.xsd" src="C:/wix/doc/wix.xsd" />
          <File Id="file3" Name="wixloc.xsd" src="C:/wix/doc/wixloc.xsd" />
        </Component>
      </Directory>
    </DirectoryRef>
</Fragment>
</Wix>

This in turn causes a problem on eventual uninstallation of the generated MSI - as there are no component Guid's, Windows Installer doesn't know which files to remove!

Enter Stefan Zschocke's "Mallow" tool available from http://www.infozoom.de/download/Mallow.zip. This tool overcomes the limitations of Tallow - and also adds synchronisation functionality - the tool can be run with an existing .wxs file as input, any extra files will be added and existing component Guid's will be preserved.

C:/wix>mallow -d ./doc
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="IBM437"?>
<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2003/01/wi">

<Fragment>
    <DirectoryRef Id="TARGETDIR">
      <Component Id="component0" Guid="ec4d2b48-28f5-4c3d-bf02-ebc1d490177f" DiskId="1">
        <File Id="file0" Name="vssver2.scc" src="C:/wix/doc/vssver2.scc" />
        <File Id="file1" Name="WiX.chm" src="C:/wix/doc/WiX.chm" />
        <File Id="file2" Name="wix.xsd" src="C:/wix/doc/wix.xsd" />
        <File Id="file3" Name="wixloc.xsd" src="C:/wix/doc/wixloc.xsd" />
      </Component>
    </DirectoryRef>
</Fragment>
</Wix>

Update: Actually, Rob Mensching has updated SourceForge to say that this functionality has now been added to Tallow, see http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1120401&group_id=105970&atid=642717 - and as Rob mentions in his blog post, they are gearing up to push another release to SourceForge imminently including MSI 4.0 support.

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You have to redirect the output, and you will also want to strip the logo.

tallow -nologo -d c:/drop > mywixfile.wxs

I would recommend going over the generated file very carefully before
trying to use it in a build process (IIRC, it will not place GUID's in
components, and may not even be buildable in it's initial form).

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