msitools

About

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's implementation of the Windows Installer.

msitools plans to be a solution for packaging and deployment of cross-compiled Windows applications.

Releases: https://download.gnome.org/sources/msitools/

Tools

msiinfo, to inspect MSI files
msibuild, a low-level tool to create MSI files
msiextract, to inspect and extract the files of an MSI file
msidump, to extract all tables or streams from an MSI file
msidiff, to diff MSI tables and file content
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.
osslsigncode >= 1.5.1 can sign MSI files.

Documentation

Notes

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

Contribute

Please report bug there: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/msitools/issues

Forking and sending gitlab pull requests is welcome.