Sounds about right. I've been down this road too. You don't need to end up with any Component* elements in your main feature tree. What I ended up doing was something more like this in your main:
<Feature ... > <FeatureRef ... /> <FeatureRef ... /> </Feature> And then in your fragments have something like: <Feature ...> <Component* /> </Feature> -Francis On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Brian Gillespie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Rob, > > > References start at the Product and work down. If a Fragment does > > not get a reference into it, it will never be included in the build. > > Would that explain the behavior you are seeing? > > Probably. Maybe I'm trying to organize my XML files in a way that WiX > isn't designed to handle. > > My hope was to have a top level wxs file to define the skeleton of my > installer: common things including the directory structure and the > feature tree structure, but no components. > > Then each feature would be defined in a separate fragment with > corresponding DirectoryRef and FragmentRef references to hook back to > the main wxs file: > <Fragment> > <DirectoryRef Id="INSTALLLOCATION"> > <Component Id="C1" Guid="..."> > <File Id="Fi1" Source="files\f1.txt"/> > </Component> > </DirectoryRef> > > <FeatureRef Id="F.1"> > <ComponentRef Id="C1"/> > </FeatureRef> > </Fragment> > > But it appears that doing this orphans the component. Is this by design? > > I was trying to avoid having a big pile of Components, ComponentRefs, > ComponentGroups, or ComponentGroupRefs back in the main skeleton wxs > file, thinking (perhaps incorrectly) that it would be easiest to > maintain if everything related to the feature was in one file. > > - Brian > > Brian Gillespie > Rhinoceros Development > Robert McNeel & Associates > > Rob Mensching wrote: > > References start at the Product and work down. If a Fragment does not > get a reference into it, it will never be included in the build. Would that > explain the behavior you are seeing? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Brian Gillespie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 15:13 > > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [WiX-users] Bug in FeatureRef? > > > > WiX release 3.0.4513.0 > > > > When I use a ComponentRef inside a FeatureRef inside a Fragment file, > > the File in my single Component doesn't end up in my MSI. However, if I > > move the FeatureRef into the main Product file, it works as I expect. > > > > Confused? Me too. Here's a tiny WiX project that gives the warning: > > > http://download.mcneel.com/individual/c391d788-6d4c-4c77-9162-749cf19289e1/LayoutTest.zip > > > > If I move the FeatureRef block from WixFile1.wxs (the fragment) to > > LayoutTest.wxs (the Product) it works as I hoped it would work > originally. > > > > Ultimately I hoped to use this type of arrangement to partition an > > installer with hundreds of files and scores of features such that all > > the XML for each feature is in one fragment. > > > > Thanks for your help, > > - Brian > > > > Brian Gillespie > > Rhinoceros Development > > Robert McNeel & Associates > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the > world > > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the > world > > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
