Note exactly accurate. ROOTDRIVE is defaulted to the drive with the most free
space on the machine (unless you're doing an admin image... then it's something
like the first writeable network drive).
As you noted, TARGETDIR is defaulted to ROOTDRIVE.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arnette, Bill
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 8:04 AM
To: Anthony Wieser; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] What exactly is SourceDir?
The default value for TARGETDIR [1] is C:\ but tools like VS.NET setup and
deployment projects add a type 51 CA (set property from formatted text) to set
TARGETDIR to [ProgramFilesFolder][Manufacturer]\[ProductName]. Also TARGETDIR
can be specified on the command line to specify where you want the application
installed. So Windows Installer defaults TARGETDIR to C:\ (actually ROOTDRIVE
property) if TARGETDIR was not specified by a certain point (CostFinalize) in
the installation sequence.
The WiX convention seems to be to set INSTALLDIR to the above path and leave
TARGETDIR at its default.
A VS.NET setup and deployment looks something like this in WiX:
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Component Id="ProductComponent" Guid="MYGUIDHERE">
<File Id="MainProgram" Name="prog.exe" Source="prog.cab"
DiskId="1" />
</Component>
</Directory>
<!-- Sets the TARGETDIR property to a path based on ProductName property-->
<CustomAction Id="SetTARGETDIR" Property="TARGETDIR"
Value="[ProgramFilesFolder][Manufacturer]\[ProductName]"
Execute="firstSequence" />
<InstallUISequence>
<!-- Set TARGETDIR if it wasn't set on the command line -->
<Custom Action="SetTARGETDIR" Before="CostFinalize">TARGETDIR=""</Custom>
</InstallUISequence>
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<!-- Set TARGETDIR if it wasn't set on the command line -->
<Custom Action="SetTARGETDIR" Before="CostFinalize">TARGETDIR=""</Custom>
<InstallExecuteSequence>
Here's some references...
[1] TARGETDIR docs - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372064.aspx
[2] SourceDir docs - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371857.aspx
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Anthony Wieser
Sent: Sat 3/24/2007 3:01 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] What exactly is SourceDir?
In all of the samples you see fragments like this:
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="MFR" Name="Wieser Software Ltd">
<Directory Id="INSTALLLOCATION" Name="Prog">
<Component Id="ProductComponent" Guid="MYGUIDHERE">
<File Id="MainProgram" Name="prog.exe" Source="prog.cab"
DiskId="1" />
</Component>
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Directory>
I don't really understand what the SourceDir is above, even though it seems
to be required (you get a warning if it's not there).
Looking through the logs, the SourceDir always seems to be set to the path
of the msi file that's run, if its on a network, or even a drive created by
subst.
However, the TARGETDIR seems always to be set to C:\
Also, why are the other directories listed as a child of TARGETDIR, when
they can in fact be located anywhere in the file system. Is it just a
pragmatic solution, that requires a single top level node for parsing?
Anthony Wieser
Wieser Software Ltd
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