Re: [WiX-users] Wix : Specifying Installation Path and sub path as apublic property

2011-05-03 Thread Blair Murri
Each Directory/@Id value is also a property that is the full path to that directory. If you don't supply the path for any one of those properties, then Windows Installer will create them based on the @Name values and the relative positions of the directories. That is what allows to make Bar =

Re: [WiX-users] Undefined preprocessor variable '$(var.Spiricon.FactoryManager.TargetPath)'

2011-05-03 Thread Kurt Jensen
oops... you're right. the guys converting the projects to vs 2010 changed the project name... -Original Message- From: Helge Kruse [mailto:helge.kruse-nos...@gmx.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 12:53 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Un

Re: [WiX-users] Undefined preprocessor variable '$(var.Spiricon.FactoryManager.TargetPath)'

2011-05-03 Thread Helge Kruse
Am 03.05.2011 18:30, schrieb Kurt Jensen: > The full command line contains over 70 other projects with variable > definitions all of which contain one or more "." > > None of the other $(var.Spiricon..TargetPath) is listed as an > error. > > >> -dSpiricon.Factory.Manager.TargetPath=E:\BaseI\CodeBas

Re: [WiX-users] Wix : Specifying Installation Path and sub path as apublic property

2011-05-03 Thread Akshat Sharma
Thanks for the reply. AFAIK, if I have a wix directory structure defined as: . . < Directory Id = "Bar" Name="Bar"> . . On installation, I should see the directory structure ...\Foo\Bar\ Since 'Bar' in this case is considered relative to 'Foo', why is it not in my case mentioned be

Re: [WiX-users] Undefined preprocessor variable '$(var.Spiricon.FactoryManager.TargetPath)'

2011-05-03 Thread Kurt Jensen
The full command line contains over 70 other projects with variable definitions all of which contain one or more "." None of the other $(var.Spiricon..TargetPath) is listed as an error. -Original Message- From: Dick Van den Brink [mailto:d_vandenbr...@live.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 201

Re: [WiX-users] Wix : Specifying Installation Path and sub path as apublic property

2011-05-03 Thread Pally Sandher
Firstly a verbose log would tell you exactly what the problem is. Secondly run the following command msiexec /i setup.msi INSTALLPATH="C:\Cool" SUBFOLDER="C:\Cool\Ice" and I suspect it'll work as you expect. SUBFOLDER refers to a Property being used as a Directory Identifier. It still needs to

Re: [WiX-users] [Wix-users] Recursive preprocessor variables

2011-05-03 Thread Aaron Klor
That was what I was trying to avoid, but it seems there's no other way. I've actually got a fairly fully featured wix lib that takes care of everything for me automatically, but I was hoping to avoid doing the bunch of copy/paste that apparently is required. Thank you for your insight. On May 3, 2

Re: [WiX-users] Undefined preprocessor variable '$(var.Spiricon.FactoryManager.TargetPath)'

2011-05-03 Thread Dick Van den Brink
I think it's confused because of the ".". When I create a WiX project in Visual Studio and add a reference to a project called Test.Project.Then i need to change the reference name (in the package project) to TestProject in order to access the variables. > From: kurt.jen...@us.ophiropt.com > D

[WiX-users] Undefined preprocessor variable '$(var.Spiricon.FactoryManager.TargetPath)'

2011-05-03 Thread Kurt Jensen
converting a v3.0 project to v3.5. on the command line I find the following. … dSpiricon.Export.TargetDir=E:\BaseI\CodeBase\Applications\Assemblies\ -dSpiricon.Export.TargetExt=.dll -dSpiricon.Export.TargetFileName=Spiricon.Export.dll -dSpiricon.Export.TargetName=Spiricon.Export -dSpiricon.E

[WiX-users] Wix : Specifying Installation Path and sub path as a public property

2011-05-03 Thread Akshat Sharma
Hi, I want to generate an .MSI which places a file, snow.txt, in the folder (INSTALLPATH)\(SUBFOLDER)\ where INSTALLPATH and SUBFOLDER are public properties that are defined from command line: msiexec /i setup.msi INSTALLPATH="C:\Cool" SUBFOLDER="Ice" I was trying to get my WiX working but it

[WiX-users] Undefined preprocessor variable '$(var.Spiricon.FactoryManager.TargetPath)'

2011-05-03 Thread Kurt Jensen
converting a v3.0 project to v3.5. on the command line I find the following. … dSpiricon.Export.TargetDir=E:\BaseI\CodeBase\Applications\Assemblies\ -dSpiricon.Export.TargetExt=.dll -dSpiricon.Export.TargetFileName=Spiricon.Export.dll -dSpiricon.Export.TargetName=Spiricon.Export -dSpiricon.E