: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] how to share variables between wix and C++ projects?
I have Wix project that contains product codes and version information
and I would like to find a way to use these information from C++
project because I do not want to
I have a small VBScript that uses
Scripting.FileSystemObject.GetFileVersion to retrieve the version of
my 'main' EXE. As part of my Nant script, I run the VBS, output to a
file, read it back in as a variable and then pass it as a command line
variable to WiX.
In my particular environment compilati
Ahh, that's a different problem than I thought you were trying to solve. We
do this sort of thing in the WiX toolset using a tool that generates the
.wxi file. You can see ours at: wix\toolsrc\GenerateWixInclude
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:41 PM, CP YEH wrote:
> Thank you for your answer. I may no
Thank you for your answer. I may not understand your reply correctly
but I was looking for a way to keep a variable in one place for
various projects. In other words, currently I have product version
variable for future upgrade in wxs file but I need this information in
other parts of my code which
The MSI SDK provides a number of APIs to get at those pieces of data from a
custom action. The WiX toolset ships with many custom actions. You might
read through those to get an idea how to read MSI databases.
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 3:47 PM, CP YEH wrote:
> I have Wix project that contains prod
I have Wix project that contains product codes and version information
and I would like to find a way to use these information from C++
project because I do not want to define these variables two different
places.
Could anyone tell me how to achieve this?
Thanks.
YEH
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