Hi everyone. I've been going over the docs and examples for about a week now, and I have some fundamental questions that I really need some direction on.
First off – the tutorial at http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix is great, but he glosses over a lot of stuff without explaining details, and the schema page at http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix2/wix_xsd_index.htm doesn't offer a lot of explanation. In the tutorial, it says: "We always start with an outermost, virtual directory: <*Directory* Id='TARGETDIR' Name='SourceDir'> then we go on with our actual structure" But TARGETDIR and SourceDir are not explained. There is no explanation as to where they are initially set, or why the ID of the directory is "TARGETDIR" – wouldn't it make more sense to have something like <Directory target="x" source="y"> ? It's confusing having the ID attribute be the target. Does that mean you can't change the target? And is the purpose of the nested directories in the tutorial supposed to represent the hierarchy of the final installation? I'm trying to build a really simple MSI file. I need to copy 3 files into a location dictated by a registry key entry (for sharepoint) and I need to add a file to the GAC. I'm using this to get the location of the current installation of SharePoint <Property Id="SPLOCATION"> <RegistrySearch Id='SharepointRegistry' Type='raw' Root='HKLM' Key='SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\AssemblyFolders\' Name='SharePoint' /> </Property> But I can't seem to use it. I tried using INSTALLDIR as the Property Id value but that didn't work any better. When installing with msiexec and creating a log file, I see my INSTALLDIR getting set, and then it gets overwritten with "d:\" for some strange reason. Can anyone explain this, or show how you would install files into a location specified by a registry entry? Thanks! -- Regards, cf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
