WiX : how to find dependencies
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(Could not find a more appropriate location for this question.) We are looking to use WiX as our installer creator as it is so powerful, and not that hard to learn/use. But, it does not automatically find dependencies, whereas the VS installer automatically adds in standard merge modules. Is there any tool we can use to locate dependent merge modules such as Microsoft.VC80.MFC ?
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(Could not find a more appropriate location for this question.) We are looking to use WiX as our installer creator as it is so powerful, and not that hard to learn/use. But, it does not automatically find dependencies, whereas the VS installer automatically adds in standard merge modules. Is there any tool we can use to locate dependent merge modules such as Microsoft.VC80.MFC ?
You can use the Dependency Walker, which is provided with Visual Studio. To run it open a Visual Studio Command Prompt and execute
depends.exe: the Dependency Walker lets you open an executable file and give you informations about dependencies and imported and exported symbols. -
You can use the Dependency Walker, which is provided with Visual Studio. To run it open a Visual Studio Command Prompt and execute
depends.exe: the Dependency Walker lets you open an executable file and give you informations about dependencies and imported and exported symbols.Thank you. Unfortunately it only tells us the DLLs. What we really would like to know is the merge modules. We can of course go through the DLLs, and locate the matching merge modules, but that is fairly time consuming.