Hey Nick, Have you looked into a custom heat.exe extension? You would only have to create a mutator that added the disk Id of your choice. It would also give you the ablitity to do some more advanced manipulation.
http://blogs.msdn.com/icumove/archive/2009/07/02/WiX-Heat-Extension_3A00_-Setting-Up-a-Custom-Extension-Project.aspx Thanks, Brian Rogers "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me http://blogs.msdn.com/icumove <-- NEW On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Rob Mensching <r...@wixtoolset.org> wrote: > What about using an XSL transform to modify the heat output? > > Nick Ball wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I'm creating a wixlib, and then using it in my main setup program, but > > I'd like the lib to go into a separate cab file. Because the contents of > > the lib have been generated by heat, I've put the disk ID on the > > directory, rather than each component. This code, understandably, does > > not work: > > > > > > > > <Fragment> > > > > <Media Id="2" Cabinet="file.cab" EmbedCab="no"/> > > > > > > > > <DirectoryRef Id="INSTALLFOLDER"> > > > > <Directory Id="Test" Name="Test" DiskId="2"> > > > > </Directory> > > > > </DirectoryRef> > > > > </Fragment> > > > > > > > > Heat output: > > > > > > > > <Fragment> > > > > <DirectoryRef Id="Test"> > > > > <Component Id="File" Guid="*"> > > > > <File Id="File" KeyPath="yes" > > Source="$(var.Folder)\file" /> > > > > </Component> > > > > </DirectoryRef> > > > > </Fragment> > > > > > > > > If I edit the heat output directly and specify the diskid, it does work. > > > > <Fragment> > > > > <DirectoryRef Id="Test" DiskId="2"> > > > > <Component Id="File" Guid="*"> > > > > <File Id="File" KeyPath="yes" > > Source="$(var.Folder)\file" /> > > > > </Component> > > > > </DirectoryRef> > > > > </Fragment> > > > > > > > > But I really want to be able to regenerate the file that heat produces > > without any subsequent editing. Is there a way of doing this? One > > solution that I keep wondering about is changing the output of heat to > > an include file. This would get round a bunch of problems I've been > > having. Could that be added as a feature request? > > > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > > > Nick > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
