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New: wixl-0.95-1, msitools-0.95-1, gcab-0.7-1
- From: Jon Turney <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
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- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 16:33:39 +0100
- Subject: New: wixl-0.95-1, msitools-0.95-1, gcab-0.7-1
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The following packages have been added to the Cygwin distribution:
girepository-msi0-0.95-1
libmsi-devel-0.95-1
libmsi0-0.95-1
msitools-0.95-1
vala-msi0-0.95-1
wixl-0.95-1
gcab-0.7-1
girepository-gcab1.0-0.7-1
libgcab-devel-0.7-1
libgcab-doc-0.7-1
libgcab1.0_0-0.7-1
vala-gcab1.0-0.7-1
wixl is a WiX-like tool that builds Windows Installer (.msi) packages
from an XML document, and tries to share the same syntax as the WiX toolset
msitools contains a set of programs to inspect and build Windows
Installer (.msi) files. It is based on libmsi, a portable library to
read and write .msi files.
- msibuild, a low-level tool to create MSI files
- msidiff: compares two MSI packages' contents
- msidump: dumps raw MSI tables and stream contents
- msiextract: extracts files contained in MSI packages
- msiinfo: inspects MSI packages
gcab is a GObject library to create cabinet files
These can be used, for example, to build .msi packages containing
cross-built MinGW-w64 applications.