install qscintilla in windows

 In order to install qscintilla we have to compile the code and install. Find the make install output from my windows below

ozkan@HP-ENVY-2021-I7 C:\Users\ozkan\tmp\QScintilla_src-2.14.1\src $ make install C:/ProgramData/chocolatey/lib/make/tools/install/bin/make.exe -f Makefile.Release install make[1]: Entering directory 'C:/Users/ozkan/tmp/QScintilla_src-2.14.1/src' copy /y release\libqscintilla2_qt5.a C:\Qt\5.15.2\mingw81_64\lib\libqscintilla2_qt5.a 1 file(s) copied. copy /y release\qscintilla2_qt5.dll C:\Qt\5.15.2\mingw81_64\lib\qscintilla2_qt5.dll 1 file(s) copied. C:\Qt\5.15.2\mingw81_64\bin\qmake.exe -install qinstall C:\Users\ozkan\tmp\QScintilla_src-2.14.1\src\Qsci C:\Qt\5.15.2\mingw81_64\include\Qsci C:\Qt\5.15.2\mingw81_64\bin\qmake.exe -install qinstall C:\Users\ozkan\tmp\QScintilla_src-2.14.1\src\qscintilla_cs.qm C:\Qt\5.15.2\mingw81_64\translations\qscintilla_cs.qm C:\Qt\5.15.2\mingw81_64\bin\qmake.exe -install qinstall C:\Users\ozkan\tmp\QScintilla_src-2.14.1\src\qscintilla_de.qm C:\Qt\5.15.2\mingw81_64\translations\qscintilla_de.qm C:\Qt\5.15.2\mingw81_64\bin\qmake.exe -install qinstall C:\Users\ozkan\tmp\QScintilla_src-2.14.1\src\qscintilla_es.qm C:\Qt\5.15.2\mingw81_64\translations\qscintilla_es.qm C:\Qt\5.15.2\mingw81_64\bin\qmake.exe -install qinstall C:\Users\ozkan\tmp\QScintilla_src-2.14.1\src\qscintilla_fr.qm C:\Qt\5.15.2\mingw81_64\translations\qscintilla_fr.qm C:\Qt\5.15.2\mingw81_64\bin\qmake.exe -install qinstall C:\Users\ozkan\tmp\QScintilla_src-2.14.1\src\qscintilla_pt_br.qm C:\Qt\5.15.2\mingw81_64\translations\qscintilla_pt_br.qm C:\Qt\5.15.2\mingw81_64\bin\qmake.exe -install qinstall C:\Users\ozkan\tmp\QScintilla_src-2.14.1\qsci C:\Qt\5.15.2\mingw81_64\qsci C:\Qt\5.15.2\mingw81_64\bin\qmake.exe -install qinstall C:\Users\ozkan\tmp\QScintilla_src-2.14.1\src\features\qscintilla2.prf C:\Qt\5.15.2\mingw81_64\mkspecs\features\qscintilla2.prf make[1]: Leaving directory 'C:/Users/ozkan/tmp/QScintilla_src-2.14.1/src' took like 10 minutes to compile in my machine. Downloaded from https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/qscintilla/download I am surprised in year of 2024 CPP does not have maven repo like structure. compiling the code is soo old now :)

download windows 11 ISOs legally from microsoft

 Strangely it is always hard to find these links

Windows 11 Enterprise | Microsoft Evaluation Center

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/evalcenter/download-windows-11-enterprise

how to show a dialog box in wix

 

Sometime we may want to show a dialog box to user from installation package, below is an example

<CustomAction Id="ConfirmAndCleanUpOldFolder"
              Script="vbscript"
              Execute="immediate">
  <![CDATA[
    On Error Resume Next
    Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
    strProgramData = WshShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%ProgramData%")
    strFolderPath = strProgramData & "\sompath\"
    Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    If Session.Property("UILevel") = 4 And fso.FolderExists(strFolderPath) Then
      result = MsgBox("An older version of the data folder exists, which is no longer necessary for the application's operation. Would you like to remove it now ? " & strFolderPath, vbYesNo + vbSystemModal, "Clean up redundant files")
      If result = vbYes Then
        fso.DeleteFolder strFolderPath, True
        If Err.Number <> 0 Then
          MsgBox "Failed to delete folder: " & Err.Description
        Else
          Session.Property("OLD_FOLDER_CLEANED") = "yes"
        End If
      End If
    End If
    On Error GoTo 0
  ]]>
</CustomAction>

and put 

<InstallExecuteSequence>
  <Custom Action="ConfirmAndCleanUpOldFolder" After="InstallInitialize" />