Hi James,
Preprocessor variables and WixVariable's are not the same thing. A preprocessor
variable is defined using <?define name="value"?>. For example:
<?define RFileSource="..\..\lib\R\R-2.14.1"?>
Preprocessor variables are handled much like the C preprocessor handles #define
macros.
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: James Green [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: January-16-12 11:50 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Cab File
Hey Again,
I'm not sure how to go about getting this working now, I've tried a few things
and I just get Undefined veriables erros:
I have <WixVariable Id="RFileSource" Value="..\..\lib\R\R-2.14.1" /> in
Product.wxs
Then I have heat producing a fragment with -cg RInstall -var var.RFileSource
But the build fails saying that "Undefined preprocessor variable
'$(var.RFileSource)"
How can I reference a variable in the main wxs file without hand editing the
generated fragment?
Cheers,
James
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Madill [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 16 January 2012 16:25
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Cab File
Hi James,
I haven't used heat for quite a while, but I think you can use the -cg <name>
option to get it to create a ComponentGroup containing all your components and
then include that component group in your Feature using a ComponentGroupRef.
Otherwise I think you have to use a ComponentRef to refer to each component
individually ... and that would clearly be a drag. :-)
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: James Green [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: January-16-12 11:11 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Cab File
Hi Dan,
Yeah, I'm just getting my batch command setup for this. It's building OK as a
fragment but I'm can't work out how to incorporate it into the features so that
it will actually execute during the install process.
James.
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Madill [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 16 January 2012 15:01
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Cab File
Hi James,
You can use the "heat" harvesting tool that comes with WiX to generate an
initial WxS installer file for your 2000 files and 650+ directories and then
add that WxS file to your installer.
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: James Green [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: January-16-12 9:48 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Cab File
Hi Peter,
Not sure I understand. I already have a "default" cab file for our application
declared like:
<Media Id="1" Cabinet="app.cab" EmbedCab="yes" CompressionLevel="high" />
This currently contains all the application files for our file defined by hand
inside Component declarations within the script. The problem I'm trying to
solve is that I have another 'sub app' that will be installed with our
application in the form of a set of files the problem is there are actually
over 2000 files and 650+ directories and I really don't want to type that lot
in (nor maintain it ...) so I was originally looking at including a zip and
running an unzip during the install process. Seeing how problematic that is I
started looking at using a cab file.
Can a cab maintain the original directory structure automatically on
decompressing?
Cheers,
James
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Shirtcliffe [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 16 January 2012 14:20
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Cab File
Add Compressed="yes" to the package element and EmbedCab="yes"
Cabinet="Product.cab" to the media element of your installer and it will
compress the files into a cabinet inside it.
-----Original Message-----
From: James Green [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 16 January 2012 14:14
To: [email protected]
Subject: [WiX-users] Cab File
Hi All,
I have a large set of files to distribute with our installer (1100 files) and I
was hoping to be able to do this with a zip file but that doesn't seem possible
(nor a good idea) so I was wondering if it was possible to use a cab file
instead?
I'm wondering if the Cab will also be able to maintain the directory structure?
Regards,
James
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