Re: [WiX-users] building an msi in the same dir as source files?

2012-05-20 Thread Andrew Maxwell
thanks! this, and the realisation I had an unspecified SourceName have done the trick. cheers, Andrew On 18 May 2012 17:16, Neil Sleightholm n...@x2systems.com wrote: I think what you need to add is -var var.SourceFiles; from the help file: -var VariableName Substitute

Re: [WiX-users] building an msi in the same dir as source files?

2012-05-18 Thread Neil Sleightholm
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

[WiX-users] building an msi in the same dir as source files?

2012-05-17 Thread Andrew Maxwell
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