Re: [WiX-users] Merge Module, Custom Actions and executables

Roberto Almanza wrote: > I tried passing in the INSTALLDIR as a parameter to the call, but it is > being passed in as the empty string. If INSTALLDIR is coming from the .msi package that consumes the .msm, it's not going to work: Merge modules are supposed to be self-contained, so their IDs are

Re: [WiX-users] Merge Module, Custom Actions and executables

I simplified my approach a bit and was able to get the exe to be copied over (along with a few xml files) and run... However, now I have a problem where I attempt to open the files when running the exe, the current directory is set to c:\. I tried passing in the INSTALLDIR as a parameter to the c

[WiX-users] Merge Module, Custom Actions and executables

Hi. I am trying to use a merge module to define an exe that I will then reference from several wix projects. The merge module definition is below. I then make the modificaitons to my wix project as specified below. Ultimately I simply want to have the executable copied to the install direction a