I've come to the conclusion that I have to convert to Wix 3.0 to use
this feature. I've got my installer converted over to comply with the
exception of a couple ICE warnings that I may or may not fix.
I'm still having issues getting the 8.3 path, though.
I have 2 CustomActions.
The first sets a property using the [!FileId] syntax.
<CustomAction Id="Get83InstallDir_Prep" Property="LONGMYEXE"
Value="[!MYEXE]" />
The second uses _splitpath_s to get just the directory part.
<CustomAction Id="Get83InstallDir" BinaryKey="LicenseFileUtils"
DllEntry="Get83InstallDir" />
When I look in the log, I see that the value given by [!FileId] is not
an 8.3 path.
Action start 17:32:11: Get83InstallDir.
Get83InstallDir: Enter Get83InstallDir
Get83InstallDir: LONGMYEXE:C:\Program Files\Test Dir\my.exe
What should I be doing to get the 8.3 version of the path?
-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Pavlik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 9:57 AM
To: Rowland, Chris
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to get 8.3 path for INSTALLDIR
Hi,...
First of all - I do not know how to create short directory name (you
can try to write custom action).
But for [!FileId] - it is feature of MSI but it is related only to
files. It means that you cannot use it to create the 8.3 format of
directory.
I would use the Custom action which will read the property filled
with [!FileId] and then it will remove the filename from the end (
check the funciton splitpaht() ).
Regards
Stefan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm trying to set an environment variable to be the value of
INSTALLDIR,
> but I need it to be the 8.3 style path.
>
>
> I saw an old mailing list thread about this topic that Rob responded
to
> with:
>
>
>
> >You could always just use "[!FileId]" to get the short name
of a file.
>
>
>
> This thread was in the context of WiX 3.0, however. When I try to do
> this with WiX 2.0, my environment variable ends up unset.
>
>
>
> Is this a WiX 3 specific feature?
>
>
>
> --Chris
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