I think what you need to add is "-var var.SourceFiles"; from the help file:
-var <VariableName>
Substitute File/@Source="SourceDir" with a preprocessor or a wix variable (e.g.
-var var.MySource will become File/@Source="$(var.MySource)\myfile.txt" and
-var wix.MySource will become File/@Source="!(wix.MySource)\myfile.txt".
This will result in the File elements having the source folder set to a
pre-processor variable, e.g.:
<File Id="fil8E5129A8454C2AA40A71DF50F7CD8484" KeyPath="yes"
Source="$(var.SourceFiles)\File1.exe" />
You can then set this a compile time.
Neil
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Maxwell [mailto:andrew.maxw...@papercut.com]
Sent: 18 May 2012 06:01
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] building an msi in the same dir as source files?
Hi again all,
My last post was a bit of a brain-dump, so I can boil my question down to a few
points here: :)
- using heat, is there a way to harvest a directory and suppress directory
id/name insertion in the resulting .wxs? (when automating heat output , this is
an annoyance) eg . heat.exe dir MyDirectory -gg -cg MyComponents -o output.wxs
would generate something like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";>
<Fragment>
<DirectoryRef Id="TARGETDIR">
*<Directory Id="dir682EE88536E915B58CEC9559EC161A89"
Name="MyDirectory">*
<Component Id="cmp789AABFBE814C745D68B0EC1FE51DF26"
..... etc
- I'm trying to build an installer where the .msi *sits in the same directory
as the uncompressed source files*. However, if my dir structure looks like:
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder" >
<Directory Id="APPLICATIONROOTDIRECTORY"
Name="MyApplication"/>
</Directory>
</Directory>
<DirectoryRef Id="APPLICATIONROOTDIRECTORY">
...components...
</DirectoryRef>
This will happily install MyAppliation to Program Files/MyApplication however
will require my msi to reside one level down, and expect the source files to be
in a dir called MyApplication.
Can anyone set me in the right direction?
My process is something like this atm:
heat dir <AppSource> -gg -sfrag -sreg -svb6 -scom -cg MainAppComps -o
installer.wxs [modify heat .wxs] candle -out installer.wxsobj installer.wxs
light -b <AppSource> -sl -spdb <AppSource>/installer.wxsobj -out
<AppSource>/installer.msi
Will create a .msi in the AppSource directory (good!), but when installed
expects the files to reside in AppSource/MyApplication/ !
Sorry again for the double post. Any thoughts anyone?
ps. if anyone's interested the reason for this seemingly bizarre project layout
is the .msi exists purely to simplify deployment via a group policy.
cheers,
Andrew
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