[WiX-users] how to add pre / post build steps to wixproj

[fgc]

Hi all,

I'm looking for a way to add pre and post build steps to the wixproj
project. According to
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg02422.html it
seems to be possible already but I did not find out how to make it work. I
have the following wixproj file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<VisualStudioProject>
    <WindowsInstallerXML
        ProductVersion="2.0.5325.0"
        ProjectGuid="{XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX}"
        SchemaVersion="1.0"
    >
        <BuildSettings
            OutputName="MyProject"
            OutputType="MSI"
        />
        <Configurations>
            <Configuration
                Name="Release"
                RelativeOutputDirectory="bin\Release"
                RelativeIntermediateDirectory="obj\Release"
            />
        </Configurations>
        <WixlibReferences />
        <Files>
            <File
                RelativePath="Installer.wxs"
            />
            <File
                RelativePath="Installer_en-us.wxl"
            />
            <File
                RelativePath="InstallerUI.wxs"
            />
            <File
                RelativePath="WixUI_en-us.wxl"
            />
        </Files>
    </WindowsInstallerXML>
</VisualStudioProject>

Now my guess was that I simply have to add a PropertyGroup inside the
WindowsInstallerXML tags:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<VisualStudioProject>
    <WindowsInstallerXML
        ProductVersion="2.0.5325.0"
        ProjectGuid="{XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX}"
        SchemaVersion="1.0"
    >
        <BuildSettings
            OutputName="MyProject"
            OutputType="MSI"
        />
        <Configurations>
            <Configuration
                Name="Release"
                RelativeOutputDirectory="bin\Release"
                RelativeIntermediateDirectory="obj\Release"
            />
        </Configurations>
        <WixlibReferences />
        <Files>
            <File
                RelativePath="Installer.wxs"
            />
            <File
                RelativePath="Installer_en-us.wxl"
            />
            <File
                RelativePath="InstallerUI.wxs"
            />
            <File
                RelativePath="WixUI_en-us.wxl"
            />
        </Files>


        <PropertyGroup>
          <PreBuildEvent>"test.pl"</PreBuildEvent>
          <PostBuildEvent></PostBuildEvent>
          <RunPostBuildEvent>Always</RunPostBuildEvent>
        </PropertyGroup>

    </WindowsInstallerXML>
</VisualStudioProject>

But that does not work at all. The output does not show anything, no calls
no errors, nothing. Do I misunderstand something here?

Thanks!

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