Chris,
From the snippet you posted below, it looks like you're trying
to, at install time, choose what file gets included in the MSI. That doesn't
work. You have to author the MSI (call this build time) before you can try to
install it. At build time, you have to supply all of the files that will be
included in the MSI.
I don't understand why, if the file is already installed to the
file system, you would want to include it in your MSI.
I don't even understand how that file would be present in your
installation directory before you install. Your MSI shouldn't be installing to
another program's directory, so you should be creating the directory, and then
populating it. The snippet below makes it seem like after you populate the
directory with your executable (from the MSI), you want to include the
executable in the MSI.
If you are just trying to start your app after installing, you
want to look at the qt exec custom action, I think. That should let you put in
a path to a file, and execute that file. You'll just have to schedule the CA
after your install is complete.
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To: Rob Mensching
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WIX Post-Install Dialog Questions
Rob,
I have been through the tutorial. I did not see anyplace that shows how to
connect an installation directory ID to a path used for a Binary declaration or
anything similar to that.
All that I need is the syntax to connect MY_APP_TARGET from this snipet:
<Directory Id="MY_APP_TARGET" Name="MyApp" LongName="MyApplication">
to the SourceFile value, $(var.MY_APP_TARGET), in this snipet:
<Binary Id="MyAppExe" SourceFile="$(var.MY_APP_TARGET)\MyApp.exe" />
Since $(var.MY_APP_TARGET) does not work, nor does [!MY_APP_TARGET], what is
the syntax to connect the directory ID to the SourceFile? How should the line
starting with "<Binary Id="MyAppExe" ... read?
If there is some other way of accomplishing the same thing, that would be fine
too.
Thanks,
Chris Ruel, Automation Consultant, Telvent Farradyne Inc.
3206 Tower Oaks Blvd., Rockville, MD 20852
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Office: 301-984-6460 Fax: 301-816-1884
Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Rob Mensching
12/07/2006 05:13 PM
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Subject:
RE: [WiX-users] WIX Post-Install Dialog Questions
I would encourage you to walk through the WiX tutorial:
http://wix.sourceforge.net/tutorial. There is a lot in your snippet below that
doesn't make a lot of sense so I'm guessing you're new to setup (I apologize,
if I've guessed wrong).
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To: Rob Mensching
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WIX Post-Install Dialog Questions
Rob,
I looked at the link you referred. From that info, I still don't see how to
get the directory.
Is there any chance you could show me an example or make the one below so that
it refers to the directory correctly?
If you could show me the syntax or way to make the MY_APP_TARGET accessible,
that would solve my problem:
<Directory Id="INSTALLATION_TARGET" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="PROGRAM_FILES_TARGET" Name="Program" LongName="Program
Files">
<Directory Id="MY_APP_TARGET" Name="MyApp" LongName="MyApplication">
...
<Binary Id="MyAppExe" SourceFile="$(var.MY_APP_TARGET)\MyApp.exe" />
<CustomAction Id="RunMyAppAction" BinaryKey="MyAppExe" ExeCommand="[MY_PARAM]
" Return="check" />
Chris Ruel, Automation Consultant, Telvent Farradyne Inc.
3206 Tower Oaks Blvd., Rockville, MD 20852
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Office: 301-984-6460 Fax: 301-816-1884
Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Rob Mensching
Enviado por: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
12/07/2006 02:42 PM
To:
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Re: [WiX-users] WIX Post-Install Dialog Questions
Please keep all threads on the mailing list.
You'll want to understand the Directory table in detail. Check out this series
of blog entries:
http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/archive/2006/10/17/deciphering-the-msi-directory-table-part-7-directories-are-properties.aspx
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Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 11:35
To: Rob Mensching
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] WIX Post-Install Dialog Questions
Thanks Rob. I greatly appreciate your timely response.
Can you give me a short example of how to refer to a directory from the
installation?
Sorry, but I don't see how to do it from the SDK you referred me.
>From this sample...
<Directory Id="INSTALLATION_TARGET" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="PROGRAM_FILES_TARGET" Name="Program" LongName="Program
Files">
<Directory Id="MY_APP_TARGET" Name="MyApp" LongName="MyApplication">
...
<Binary Id="MyAppExe" SourceFile="$(var.MY_APP_TARGET)\MyApp.exe" />
<CustomAction Id="RunMyAppAction" BinaryKey="MyAppExe" ExeCommand="[MY_PARAM]
" Return="check" />
Chris Ruel, Automation Consultant, Telvent Farradyne Inc.
3206 Tower Oaks Blvd., Rockville, MD 20852
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Office: 301-984-6460 Fax: 301-816-1884
Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Rob Mensching
12/07/2006 02:00 PM
To:
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net"
<wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
cc:
Subject:
RE: [WiX-users] WIX Post-Install Dialog Questions
1. Windows Installer doesn't work that way. You ask your questions up front,
the data gets preserved in the transaction where you operate on it. The
Windows Installer isn't a scripting engine, it's a transaction engine. Have to
think about the problem a little differently.
2. Take a look at the "Formatted" topic in the MSI SDK. It'll show you who
you can use things like [!FileId] to refer to the install location of files and
all that good stuff.
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Subject: [WiX-users] WIX Post-Install Dialog Questions
Hi,
I am tring to develop an installation application using WIX and WixEdit that
will show a dialog after the files were installed so that I can run some
scripts using PERL that were installed during the application. I am
encountering the following problems that I was wondering if you might now how
to address:
1) Launching a dialog to obtain some user input after the files are installed.
I can't find a way that works, such as <Show Dialog After=InstallFinalize />
or by changing the MONDO sequence file. I've tried both. Can you provide some
example that will launch a dialog to obtain a user input field after the file
installation?
2) Launching an application that was installed. How do I specify a variable
relative path for one of the file components that was installed? I have tried
all sorts of things for binary keys, etc. and nothing seems to be able to work
specifying a relative path for an installed file:
<Binary Id="MyInstalledExe" SourceFile="$(var.SOME_DIR)myapp.exe" />
Any help or suggestions you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
Chris Ruel, Automation Consultant, Telvent Farradyne Inc.
3206 Tower Oaks Blvd., Rockville, MD 20852
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Office: 301-984-6460 Fax: 301-816-1884
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