I usually have my WiX installer as a project inside of my Visual Studio
solution. When I do a build, I want the installer to be built using the Debug
files in Debug mode, or the Release files in Release mode.
What I do to accomplish this is that I pass a pre-processor property to WiX
named Configuration and set Configuration to either Debug or Release in the
build settings. Then inside of my WiX file, I use $(var.Configuration) in the
file paths. At compile time, WiX's preprocessor will replace
$(var.Configuration) with either "Debug" or "Release". This allows the same
build script to load debug files in a debug build or release files in a release
build.
I hope that this helps to answer your question.
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From: "Charlebois, Cameron TMC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 1:07 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Debug / Release version of dependencies
I am a WIX noob so please bear with me.
I setup a WIX project, made it dependant on the projects I want to
distribute/package in my MSI. When I compile my WIX project all of the other
projects compile and I can get the latest versions of the files. Everything
works and is wonderful.
The problem is that I usually keep my projects in a debug configuration which
means that when I do this I get the debug versions of my projects. I need the
release versions (there is a bunch of post-build and stuff that is very, very
time consuming that only happens with a release version). So is there a way to
get the release version into my WIX MSI or is this beyond WIX's scope? I
haven't found anything in the tutorial or when Googling for changing which
version gets built during the WIX compile of the MSI.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
-Cam
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