Hey Patrice,
Have you tried using heat.exe ?? Since you have so many
files you might want to take a look at that. You point it to you folder
and it writes out the wxs file for you including all the reg keys for
DLL's etc.
If order to build patch's and minor versions your going to
need to reconcile your GUIDS and ID. The tool you need I believe this
community calls it a "component catalog", and as far as I'm aware it
does not exist.
Unfortunately when you use heat it will not generate GUIDS
and you need to maintain them and the ID's yourself. Remember to not
break any of the component rules (whatever they are).
I have written what I think is a component catalog, however
I don't have enough knowledge to ensure all component rules are not
broken so it's just something I'm playing with at this point.
Jimbo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrice
Lamarche
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 6:39 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] New to wix 3.0 ( 3.0.2925.0)
Hello everyone,
We are stating using WiX. I'm searching for some help about
how to structure our wxs file. We have a lot (more than 60K) files. The
format we use currently is one file per component and one feature
containing all the components. I have to build patch between minor
version that remove, update and add new files. Is there any best
practices or suggestions?
I did some tests. I correctly generated a setup. I tried the patching
system with pyro. I based my Patch.wxs on the Peter Marcu's Blog sample.
My sample did work but it's took long time to generate the patch for
only one file modified. Pyro looks to do a binary compare on each file
can we specify to check if the file date have changed if not skip to the
next file?
Now I'm trying with a smaller set of files to test removed files and
added files into a patch but I get this error
C:\delivery\Dev\wix\src\ext\uiextension\wixlib\Common.wxs(73) : error
PYRO0103 : The system cannot find the file
'C:\delivery\Target\wix\x86\ship\lang-neutral\PrintEula.dll'.
I'm currently updating my sdk to build wix. And get the dll
Thanks you for yours advices.
Best Regards,
Patrice Lamarche
There is a sample of my wxs
Setup.wxs
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";>
<Product Id="{955BA1D1-594E-4678-AD9B-785038FEBC47}" Language="1033"
Manufacturer="Blabla Inc." Name="v1.00.00"
UpgradeCode="{DD431266-3725-4BBB-902A-936CDFD95CA5}" Version="1.00.00">
<Package Compressed="yes" InstallerVersion="300" />
<Upgrade Id="{DD431266-3725-4BBB-902A-936CDFD95CA5}">
<UpgradeVersion OnlyDetect='yes' Property='PATCHFOUND'
Minimum='1.00.00' IncludeMinimum='yes' Maximum='1.00.00'
IncludeMaximum='yes' />
<UpgradeVersion OnlyDetect='yes' Property='NEWERFOUND'
Minimum='1.00.00' IncludeMinimum='no' />
</Upgrade>
<Directory Id='TARGETDIR' Name='SourceDir'>
<Directory Id='ProgramFilesFolder' Name='PFiles'>
<Directory Id='Blabla' Name='Blabla'>
<Directory Id='INSTALLDIR' Name='Bla'>
<Directory Id="data_1" Name="Data">
<Component Id="bla.build_1"
Guid="{6CB5A96B-2470-4F61-A237-8B8FC9853BCC}">
<File Id="bla.build_1" Name="bla.build" KeyPath="yes"
Source="x:\Data\bla.build" DiskId="1" />
</Component>
<Component Id="bladata.build_1"
Guid="{7743C10F-109D-4209-9B67-361D24AB3D21}">
<File Id="bladata.build_1" Name="blaData.build" KeyPath="yes"
Source="x:\blaData.build" DiskId="1" />
</Component>
<Component Id="bladata.ss.build_1"
Guid="{FD92FBF9-BAF0-4730-A263-CC646B91914D}">
<File Id="bladata.ss.build_1" Name="blaData.ss.build" KeyPath="yes"
Source="x:\blaData.ss.build" DiskId="1" />
</Component>
......
<Feature Id="bla" Level="1" Title="Bla 1.00.00">
<ComponentRef
Id="log4net.appender.appenderskeleton.activateoptions.html_1" />
<ComponentRef Id="banksinmultibootdlg.cpp_1" />
<ComponentRef Id="gxtevbias.html_1" />
<ComponentRef Id="log4net.core.logimpl.errorformat_overload_3.html_1" />
<ComponentRef Id="t_5_025.cpp_1" />
<ComponentRef Id="test_list.vcproj_1" />
<ComponentRef Id="doc2.htm_1" />
.....
Patch.wxs
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";>
<Patch
AllowRemoval="yes"
Manufacturer="Bla"
MoreInfoURL="http://www.bla.com/";
DisplayName="Bla 1.00.00 to 1.00.01"
Description="Patch Sample"
Classification="Update"
>
<Media Id="5000" Cabinet="RTM.cab">
<PatchBaseline Id="RTM"/>
</Media>
<PatchFamilyRef Id="BlaPatch"/>
</Patch>
<Fragment>
<PatchFamily Id="BlaPatch" Version='1.00.01' Supersede='yes'>
</PatchFamily>
</Fragment>
</Wix>
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