And how do you intend to communicate that path into the MSI? And how will that path relate to the source path of the files before they have been added to the MSI when on other machines those files won’t exist yet?
I’m just trying to understand what your scenario is here to help guide you to a working solution. Blair From: Suvrajyoti Panda Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 10:51 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. I do intend, but for that scenario i am changing the path accordingly, using %~d0\Installers path. On 21-01-2014 11:07, Blair Murri wrote: > And you don’t intend on installing them on any other machine? > > > > > > > Blair > > > > > > From: Suvrajyoti Panda > Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 9:18 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > > > > > Hi Blair, > > I build them from the same machine at the same from another location. > > Regards, > SuvraJyoti > On 21-01-2014 09:48, Blair Murri wrote: >> You only install MSIs on the same machine you build those MSIs from? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Blair >> >> >> >> >> >> From: Suvrajyoti Panda >> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 11:14 PM >> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. >> >> >> >> >> >> Thanks David that works. >> >> I have used as below: >> >> <Property Id="SIMULATORPATH"> >> <DirectorySearch Id="SimulatortDir" Depth="6" >> Path="$(var.SimulatorSearchRoot)" AssignToProperty="yes"> >> <FileSearch Id="StandaloneSimulator_exe" >> Name="StandaloneSimulator.exe"/> >> </DirectorySearch> >> </Property> >> >> Adding to it, is there any way i can refer to the root directory of the >> current directory where the wix file is. My wix file is in the location >> D:\Project\ESI\PLTLPLO\trunk\releaseFiles\GameraInstaller, how can i >> refer to the root directory "D:\". I want to use this value in the path >> attribute of DirectorySearch. If anyone has used the same please let me >> know. >> >> Regards, >> SuvraJyoti >> >> On 15-01-2014 20:53, David Watson wrote: >>> If you are not shipping the simulator and it is already on the target >>> machine you can use a directory/file search to search the hard disk for it >>> then use the resulting property to set the registry value. >>> >>> See >>> http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/howtos/files_and_registry/parentdirectorysearch.html >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Suvrajyoti Panda [mailto:suvrajyo...@contata.co.in] >>> Sent: 15 January 2014 11:51 >>> To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. >>> Subject: [WiX-users] Fwd: Creating registry for an application installed >>> outside the current directory structure in WIX file >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> To add to the below issue, i understand that i could use a property that >>> includes the registry search. But issue here is that the application >>> "StandaloneSimulator.exe" is not something that has been installed on my >>> machine(i cannot find it under control panel). The >>> D:\Project\ESI\PFW\trunk\StandaloneSimulator\bin exists as it has been >>> checked out from SVN.Please let me know in case there are any workarounds. >>> >>> >>> -------- Original Message -------- >>> Subject: Creating registry for an application installed outside the >>> current directory structure in WIX file >>> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:44:55 +0530 >>> From: Suvrajyoti Panda <suvrajyo...@contata.co.in> >>> To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. >>> <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >>> >>> >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I am creating an wix installer. I want to create a registry entry whose >>> path is not under the directory structure created in the WIX file. Below is >>> what i intend to do: >>> >>> <Directory Id='TARGETDIR' Name='SourceDir'> >>> <Directory Id='Scheduler' Name="Scheduler"> >>> <Directory Id='PLTLPLOGAMERA' Name="Pipeline Scheduler Gamera"> >>> >>> <Component Id="x86RegEntGameraSimulatorPath" >>> Guid="{C769AC98-A3D0-4CB4-939F-F396B49D4E5F}" Win64="no"> >>> <RegistryValue Id="x86GameraSimulatorPathRegValue" >>> Root="HKLM" Key="SOFTWARE\[Manufacturer]" >>> Name="$(var.standalonesimulatorRegName)" >>> *Value="D:\Project\ESI\PFW\trunk\StandaloneSimulator\bin" *Type="string" /> >>> </Component> >>> <Component Id="x64RegEntGameraSimulatorPath" >>> Guid="{0ED0A7FC-DCB1-4C36-A39B-56F9F97A3A2C}" Win64="yes"> >>> <RegistryValue Id="x64GameraSimulatorPathRegValue" >>> Root="HKLM" Key="SOFTWARE\[Manufacturer]" >>> Name="$(var.standalonesimulatorRegName)" >>> Value="*D:\Project\ESI\PFW\trunk\StandaloneSimulator\bin*" Type="string" /> >>> </Component> >>> </Directory> >>> </Directory> >>> </Directory> >>> >>> The *Value *in the above keys is the path where an application >>> "standalonesimulator.exe" is installed.Please suggest if there is anyway >>> that i do not have to hardcode this path. 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