Heat will take EVERYTHING in the directory you specify. It should pick up on the COM DLLs just fine.
Brian Rogers "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me http://blogs.msdn.com/icumove On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Bill McCormick (LIST) < wpmccorm...@ace-co.com> wrote: > Neil. Thanks so much for the reply. I was beginning to think that maybe > I need to change body soap 'cause no one wanted to talk to me :'( > > Will heat do the right thing if I just use the dir switch on a directory > that contains all the files that I want to install? Some may be COM (DLL > or OCX). > > Thanks, > > Bill > > On 3/29/2010 2:56 PM, Neil Sleightholm wrote: > > I am afraid that is how heat works, it only finds the primary output and > > no referenced assemblies. If you want the referenced assemblies then you > > have to heat those projects or files independently. > > > > Personally I think this is major limitation of heat and makes the new > > Harvest feature in WiX v3.5's Votive > > (http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2010/2/19/WiX-v3.5-now-supports-Visu > > al-Studio-2010-RC) very limiting. Hopefully this can be resolved at some > > point (I have taken a look at the code and can't see a solution to it > > myself). > > > > Neil > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bill McCormick (LIST) [mailto:wpmccorm...@ace-co.com] > > Sent: 29 March 2010 17:21 > > To: WiX > > Subject: [WiX-users] how to use heat to harvest VS projects > > > > I'm trying to understand how to use the project switch with heat. I made > > > > a test project whose binary output includes a Windows form application > > and a DLL class library. When I build the Test project I have a Test.exe > > > > and a ClassLibrary1.dll in the bin directory. I then run heat like this: > > > > $ heat project Test.csproj -pog:Binaries -ag -template:fragment -out > > Test.wxs > > > > In the Test.wxs file: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > > <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";> > > <Fragment> > > <DirectoryRef Id="Test.Binaries"> > > <Component Id="cmp2F99CCE204223917D7EF255085458FB9" > > Guid="*"> > > <File Id="fil3480738170913E4A272FDF51D7CD77AE" > > Source="$(var.Test.TargetDir)\Test.exe" /> > > </Component> > > </DirectoryRef> > > </Fragment> > > <Fragment> > > <ComponentGroup Id="Test.Binaries"> > > <ComponentRef Id="cmp2F99CCE204223917D7EF255085458FB9" /> > > </ComponentGroup> > > </Fragment> > > </Wix> > > > > there is no reference to the ClassLibrary1.dll. Is this correct? > > > > I posted a similar question last week but didn't get much feedback, > > except for one user saying they only use the dir switch. So I'm trying > > the question again in a more direct way: > > > > How can heat be used to harvest VS projects? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Bill > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------ > > 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. 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