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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gnome/msitools
• Owner: GNOME
• License: other
• Created: 2016-01-04T13:47:15.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-09-23T08:06:41.000Z (about 2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-04T21:58:36.877Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: C
• Homepage: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/msitools
• Size: 4.19 MB
• Stars: 45
• Watchers: 7
• Forks: 14
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: NEWS
  • Authors: AUTHORS

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# msitools

## Introduction

*msitools* is 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.  libmsi in turn is a port of (and a subset of)

[Wine](https://www.winehq.org/)'s implementation of the Windows

Installer.

*msitools* plans to be a solution for packaging and deployment of

cross-compiled Windows applications.

## Tools

Provided tools include:

- `msiinfo`, to inspect MSI files

- `msibuild`, a low-level tool to create MSI files

- `msidiff`, compares contents of two MSI files with diff

- `msidump`, dumps raw MSI tables and stream content

- `msiextract`, to inspect and extract the files of an MSI file

- `wixl`, 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](http://wixtoolset.org/)

- `wixl-heat`, a tool that builds XML fragments from a list of files

  and directories.

## Notes

Right now, *msitools* does not work under Windows.  It is planned that

it will self-host.

While in a very early stage, it is already usable.

*msitools* uses [libgsf](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgsf) in

order to read OLE Structured Storage files (which are the underlying

format of .MSI files).

Wixl lacks many features compared to WiX. As always, contributions

are welcome!

Reporting issues and sending pull requests is welcome!