I am still not able to get wxs to read the source files from a cab file. I have
the following lines in my wxs file:
Media Id='1' Cabinet='themes1.cab' EmbedCab='no' /
Directory Id=directory1 DiskId=1 ShortName=ACCOUN_1 Name=Accounting
Component Id=component0 DiskId=1
Guid=30548E66-C0DE-4990-B1DE-EEC3916E8D71
File Id=file2 Name=t12.jpg /
File Id=file3 Name=t13.jpg /
/Component
/Directory
If I do a cabarc -l on my cab file, i can see the contents with file names like
Accounting\t12.jpg . But I get errors which says that it cannot find file
\Accounting\t12.jpg.
What am I doing wrong here?
ThanksRavi
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]: RE: [WiX-users]
Including cab file within MSI...Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:42:42 -0700
Thanks Mike, that's exactly what I needed. I have multiple cab files though,
and I will see if I can embed multiple cab files in the MSI. If I set the Media
element to point to the cab file and set the id on the media element, I would
have to specify this id in the DiskId for the File element, right? I want the
installer to extract the files at install time from the embedded cab files, and
delete them during uninstall. I didn't get what you meant when you said If you
don't want the installer to manage files in the CAB. Can you please elaborate?
ThanksRavi
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]: RE: [WiX-users]
Including cab file within MSI...Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:30:22 +0100
Do you mean just installing the CAB files as files, not extracting the
contents? If so, just use the File element to install the CAB.
If you want the contents of the CAB extracted, you can use the Media element to
reuse the existing CABs, as long as they are external to the installer. List
the files within the CAB as appropriate File elements, using the DiskId
attribute to specify the CAB that the files live in. Specify -reusecab on the
light command line to reuse the existing CABs.
If you want the CAB to be embedded in the installer, it may be possible to set
Media/@EmbedCab to 'yes'. I can’t recall offhand whether you can embed multiple
CABs in the same installer.
Finally, if you want to include the CAB in the installer and have it extracted
at install time, but you don’t want Windows Installer to manage the files in
the CAB, you need a custom action. I wouldn’t recommend this because you
obviously don’t get the benefits of automatic repair or install-on-first-use
(at least, not without extra work on your part).
--
Mike Dimmick
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ravikumar
GopinathSent: 26 June 2007 18:48To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [WiX-users] Including
cab file within MSI...
I have a couple of cab files which contains quite a few files within them. I
want to include the cab files in my installer and unpack the cab files during
install, and delete those unpacked files during uninstall. Is it possible to do
this? If so, how can I do it? ThanksRavi-
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