"Heat is designed to allow a setup author to very quickly generate their setup authoring the first time. From then onward, the authoring should be maintained manually to ensure that guids and identifiers remain stable and component rules are not broken. In order to use Heat to generate setup every time, it would be necessary to create a database which tracks the components, their guids & identifiers, and their files for every release of your product. We call this a component catalog. Heat does not provide a component cataloging capability - however - it does expose the necessary functionality so that anyone could write a component catalog, hook it into heat as an extension, and generate their setup automatically without breaking component rules."
http://installing.blogspot.com/2006/04/heatexe-making-setup-easier.html > From: sanjay.po...@xanalys.com > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:39:47 +0000 > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Adding multiple files to component > > I have a similar issue. I think you can use the "heat" tool to recursively > traverse the source directory and generate a fragment consisting of a set of > component/file definitions. I have read that this tool should only be used > once is not intended to be used as part of an automated build process but i'm > not sure why. If anyone can provide more insight, that would be great. > > sanjay > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kerber, Cameron [mailto:cameron.ker...@philips.com] > > Sent: 16 March 2010 15:28 > > To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [WiX-users] Adding multiple files to component > > > > I'm sure this question has been asked before in some variety but > > searching the mail archives on SourceForge is awful. I am also new to > > WIX > > > > Anyways, in my build process I am outputting a bunch of files to a > > directory. I want all those files added to a component in my WIX > > project. To build my WIX project, during my build process I just build > > my WIX installer solution and it creates the setup package. So besides > > manually adding all these files (~50) to my component by hand, I don't > > understand how to accomplish this. All the tutorials just use one file > > in there examples. No one uses adding files from a source directory. > > > > Thanks! > > > > ________________________________ > > The information contained in this message may be confidential and > > legally protected under applicable law. The message is intended solely > > for the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, you are > > hereby notified that any use, forwarding, dissemination, or > > reproduction of this message is strictly prohibited and may be > > unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the > > sender by return e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------- > > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users _________________________________________________________________ Mejla på krogen! Hotmail i mobilen. http://new.windowslivemobile.msn.com/SE-SE/windows-live-hotmail/default.aspx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
