Shayla,
An example from our own build process is as follows:
Candle <SourceScript> -dMajorRev=1 -dMinorRev=2 -dPatchRev=3
-dBuildRev=4
Within the script, we use (for example)
<Package Id="????????-????-????-????-????????????"
Description="Description" Comments="Product
V$(var.MajorRev).$(var.MinorRev).$(var.PatchRev) (build
$(var.BuildRev))" Manufacturer="Manufacturer" InstallerVersion="200"
Compressed="yes"/>
I'm not sure if you are actually including the ( and ) characters in the
command line. If so, that's where you're going wrong since they would
then need to be referenced as $(var.(assemblyVersion)) etc.
I should probably also mention that we are using WiX v2, because we are
currently shipping the product and the official word is that WiX v3
should not be used for externally shipping installations at this time.
If you are using WiX V3 you may find the syntax has changed.
Hope this helps,
Regards,
Richard
P.S. you can also find an example of preprocessor variable usage in the
WiX tutorial - see http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson9.php
________________________________
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 11:17 AM
To: Foster, Richard - PAL
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] pass variable during compile time
Thank you for your reply. I added -d(assemblyVersion)=(1.0.42.0) to the
candle command line but how do I access the varible inside the wix
project? I have tries $(var.assemblyVersion). But this doesn't seem to
work. I have tried searching everywhere for an example, but I have had
no luck.
TIA,
Shayla
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