Re: [WiX-users] Dependencies and conflicts

2009-05-05 Thread Rob Mensching
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Re: [WiX-users] Dependencies and conflicts

2009-05-05 Thread Stryder Crown
I'm using Visual Studio for these, which has proven to be a big help for organizing everything. And I guess that's kinda the mentality I'm coming at this with. Create a project for a major component, and then include references to everything that is needed to run that. I sepecifically _don't_ wa

Re: [WiX-users] Dependencies and conflicts

2009-05-05 Thread Rob Mensching
1. I personally haven't sat down and thought about all of them. Honestly, the strategies I use come from my days of working in C/C++. WiX works very similarly. If you organize your code well in C/C++ and follow similar organization efforts in WiX, it all works out. Duplicating code across .lib

Re: [WiX-users] Dependencies and conflicts

2009-05-05 Thread Stryder Crown
Do you have any links or places that I could go to read on these strategies? I'm reluctant to put everything in one (or two) wixlib's since these are dll's and exe's that contribute to the overall functionality of several programs. Can't wix just 'ignore' when a wixlib has a reference to a file t

Re: [WiX-users] Dependencies and conflicts

2009-05-05 Thread Rob Mensching
Putting the same content in different .wixlibs is going to lead to no end of troubles. I don't know the specifics but there are several ways to restructure the example below to end up with content only in one .wixlib. I highly recommend picking one of those strategies (for example, you could pu

[WiX-users] Dependencies and conflicts

2009-05-05 Thread Stryder Crown
Ok, I'm sure this has been asked here before, but I wasn't able to find the thread or a resolution... How does anybody else deal with this situation: I have several WiX projects that share common dependencies that I'm compiling into wixlibs for larger projects. I want to ensure that a compiled w