Create a .msi file for go program

Hi everyone, long time no write anything, but I had a lot of projects and stresses to study, but now, we'll create a .msi file for go program

Pre-requisites

• go is installed
• wixtoolset it's very important

What's we'll use?

Package go-msi helps to generate MSI package for a Go project.

installation

by go

go get github.com/mh-cbon/go-msi 

by Chocolatey

choco install go-msi 

for more, visit https://mh-cbon.github.io/go-msi/#install

ok, now let's create a simple go file msi.go

package main import "fmt" func main() { fmt.Println("Gen MSI File") } 

build it

go build 

wix.json

to create a .msi file, we need wix.json

{ "product": "YOUR_PRODUCT_NAME", "company": "YOUR_COMPANY_NAME", "license": "LICENSE", "upgrade-code": "", "files": { "guid": "", "items": [ "path/to/msi.exe", ] }, "env": { "guid": "", "vars": [ { "name": "PATH", "value": "[INSTALLDIR]", "permanent": "no", "system": "no", "action": "set", "part": "last" } ] }, "shortcuts": {}, "choco": { "description": "YOUR_DESC", "project-url": "YOUR_PROJECT_URL", "tags": "TAGS YOU NEED", "license-url": "YOUR_LICENSE_URL" } } 

our guid props are empty, run this command

go-msi set-guid 

Create Interfaces

we'll create three user interfaces

1. License Agreement Page
2. WiX UI
3. Product Page

now create three files

• LicenseAgreementDlg_HK.wsx
• product.wsx
• WixUI_HK.wsx

download these files here

put these files in folder, like templates folder

Generate

go-msi make --msi YOUR_PRODUCT_NAME.msi --version YOUR_VERSION -s ./path/to/*.wsx 

now you can test your msi file

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