Generally speaking, $(env.ProgramFiles) captures the value of the environment variable %ProgramFiles% on the BUILD machine, and [ProgramFilesFolder] provides the 32-bit Program Files folder on the INSTALLING machine (runtime, so to speak). The two variables really have nothing to do with each other since they relate to different machines and are evaluated at different times.
Here's the rule: If the value of a path will be evaluated as part of the build (such as: in the Source* attribute of some element) use WiX's $(type.name) [or even !(type.name)] syntax. If the value of a path must be evaluated at runtime (since "common" paths such as Program Files varies with localized OSs and other customizations) use Windows Installer's [PropertyOrDirectoryName] syntax. Did you really get "C:\Program Files" on a German WinXP build machine that you ran the candle.exe tool on? -----Original Message----- From: Andrei Korostelev [mailto:roknap...@mail.ru] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 10:54 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] $(env.ProgramFiles) is set incorrectly on non-US WinXP? I bumped into the following problem on WinXP German. The Windows environment variable %ProgramFiles% correctly points to "C:\Programme" (checked using "set" command). However wix expands $(env.ProgramFiles) as "C:\Program Files" i.o. "C:\Programme" Replacing $(env.ProgramFiles) with [ProgramFilesFolder] fixes the issue, but I am wondering about the problem roots. Do I miss something? The issue is reproducible on wix-2.0.5805 and wix-3.0.5419.0, WinXP SP1 and SP3 German (32-bit). Regards, Andrei ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
