This wix v3.
I have a wix based merge module installing some exe + auxillary
stuff. In the main .wxs I can use this merge module and
everything works fine so far.
Now I'd like to add shortcuts in the startmenu and associate
a few extensions with this .exe - which seems to works at least
for the shortcuts when I put everything unconditionally in the
merge module like so:
<Component Win64='$(var.Win64YesNo)' Id='xxx' Guid='...'>
<File Id='xxx' Name='xxx.exe' Source='$(var.BuildRoot)\bin\xxx.exe'>
<Shortcut Id='startmenuxxx' Directory='ProgramMenuDir'
Name='xxx' WorkingDirectory='TARGETDIR'/>
<Shortcut Id='desktopxxx' Directory='DesktopFolder'
Name='xxx' WorkingDirectory='TARGETDIR'/>
</File>
</Component>
As putting arbitrary stuff unconditionally on the user's
'private area' is not too nice I thought it might be a good
idea to have this as separate user-selectible 'features' in
the installer.
Now the first problem is that I can't reference a file in a merge
module. From reading this list I suppose the canonical solution
for this is not to use a merge module, but a Wix Fragment.
Is this understanding correct?
Now, I tried just putting the exe itself not in the merge module,
but in the main .wxs, so the merge module related problem is 'gone'.
This leave me with a component containing an exe and two shortcuts
from which I only want to install the latter.
Should I create two components, one with the shortcuts and one
without, and install exactly one of them depending on the feature selection?
Or is there a method to associate the shortcuts with the file
_outside_ the file's 'home component'?
Third(ish) problem: The file assosications. I 'found' in the Wix
tutorial:
<ProgId Id='AcmeFoobar.xyzfile' Description='Acme Foobar data file'>
<Extension Id='xyz' ContentType='application/xyz'>
<Verb Id='open' Sequence='10' Command='Open' Target='[!FileId]'
Argument='"%1"' />
</Extension>
</ProgId>
This seems to be Wix v2 only and does not work for me with Wix v3.
The error I get is:
u:\src\fesetup\wix\setup.wxs(350) : error CNDL0045 : The Verb element's
TargetFile or TargetProperty attribute was not found; one of these
as required when attribute Advertise has a value of 'no'.
So I suspect I need to change Target in TargetFile.
And put the thing into the <File>...</File> of the 'target' exe?
That does not really help...
Andre'
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