Re: [WiX-users] Adding tons of files to an MSI

Thanks for your answers, I'm almost there, I think... > There will be a hierarchy that will > be setup toward the bottom of your wxs file that you can modify to have the > right TARGETDIR that you want. The wxs file is auto generated, so can you elaborate how I change the targetdir without modif

Re: [WiX-users] Adding tons of files to an MSI

uary 06, 2007 10:46 AM To: Levi Wilson; Nick Hennemann Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Adding tons of files to an MSI There exists (and I can't for the life of me find it again) a utility called mallow.exe which does the same thing as tallow, except it generate

Re: [WiX-users] Adding tons of files to an MSI

e than happy to post it here. -Matt _ From: Levi Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 5:42 AM To: Nick Hennemann Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Adding tons of files to an MSI In version 3 tallow.exe does not exist. You wi

Re: [WiX-users] Adding tons of files to an MSI

I'm not sure where else it's talked about, but the above blog entry is by the author of heat I believe. -gg is the "generate guid" option, so you don't have to generate them yourself. Heat will setup a directory structure, and for each file (component) it will use the name if the directory you u

Re: [WiX-users] Adding tons of files to an MSI

2/6/2007 4:31 AM *To:* wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* [WiX-users] Adding tons of files to an MSI Can anyone help me to automatically add a directory and all its contents to an MSI? The problem: I have a directory whose contents is auto generated and therefore can be considered fa

Re: [WiX-users] Adding tons of files to an MSI

take a look at the tallow.exe command...very helpful for this type of situation. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Very Secret Sent: Tue 2/6/2007 4:31 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Adding tons of files to an MSI Can anyone

Re: [WiX-users] Adding tons of files to an MSI

Just a sidenote: Creating an installer that installs "fairly random" things does is IMO fairly suboptimal... The problem: I have a directory whose contents is auto generated and therefore can be considered fairly random. The directory may contain thousands of files so adding them manually with

[WiX-users] Adding tons of files to an MSI

Can anyone help me to automatically add a directory and all its contents to an MSI? The problem: I have a directory whose contents is auto generated and therefore can be considered fairly random. The directory may contain thousands of files so adding them manually with the tag is not an option.