Thanks Pavan. But if I have this in my Product.wxs:
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="ProgramFiles64Folder">
<Directory Id="Root" Name="appName">
</Directory>
</Directory>
No matter what I pass in the external app, WiX defaults to
ProgramFiles\appName folder. The only way I can have the external app
control it is, if I dont have the above code in my Product.wxs. I was
wondering if I can switch between the two.
Prashanth
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Pavan Konduru
<pavan.kond...@accelrys.com>wrote:
> Your external app is controlling your WIX installer and not the other way
> around.
> So, no matter what you do in WIX, the Target is controlled by that
> external app.
>
> --Pavan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prashanth Srinivasan [mailto:pra...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2014 12:54 PM
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [WiX-users] using TARGETDIR from command line or default to
> C:\ProgramFiles\AppName
>
> I have an MSI, which will be delivered through an external application.
> The external app has the ability to set install directory which will be
> translated to msiexec /i TARGETDIR="C:\abc". This works perfectly fine.
>
> The issue I have is that, when the user wants the install to occur in the
> default location through the external app, then nothing is passed to
> msiexec and the installation occurs in C:\ drive or the drive with the
> largest volume. How do I change that to say C:\ProgramFiles\appName\abc?
>
> Here is my relevant Product.wxs
>
> <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
>
> <Directory Id="ProgramFiles64Folder">
> <Directory Id="Root" Name="appName">
> </Directory>
> </Directory>
>
> Having this option ignores the external app and the msiexec's TARGETDIR
> param. So my question is, how can I do something like this in WiX:
>
> if TARGETDIR then use it
>
> if no TARGET DIR then
>
> <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
>
> <Directory Id="ProgramFiles64Folder">
> <Directory Id="Root" Name="appName">
> </Directory>
> </Directory>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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