Forwarding to the Wix alias. From: Jacques Eloff Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 2:41 PM To: EE Dev Support Subject: WiX & environment variables
Hi I've just tried the msiqow alias (which failed) and I can't find a general WiX alias, so hoping someone here might be able to help I need to create a file in the %TEMP% folder of the user running the MSI. What I've been doing is creating a property to hold the full path using a custom action (since $(env.temp) is resolved by the preprocessor at compile time of the MSI). <CustomAction Id='$(var.VSVer)_VSLogFile' Property='VS_LOG_FILE' Value='[%temp]\Foo.txt/> <CustomAction Id='$(var.VSVer)_VSCreate_LogFile' Property='VSCreate_LogFile' Value='"cmd.exe" /c copy /Y NUL [VS_LOG_FILE]'/> The problem that I'm having is that when using msiexec and changing %TEMP% locally, then the MSI still picks up the original value. For example, if I have a cmd file such as setlocal set TEMP=C:\ msiexec /I MySetup.msi /q /l*v .\install.log endlocal and %TEMP% points to C:\users\timmy\AppData\Local\Temp then running the cmd script does not result in the MSI creating Foo.txt under C:\ as I would expect. Is there away to work around this and pick up the current value of %TEMP% at install time? I've also tried using the [TempFolder] property and get the same result. Jacques ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
