Derek: The value is being used at build time to determine the location of the appropriate merge modules for Visual Studio 8 run times.
Jeffrey Altman Derek Cicerone wrote: > Sorry for all the questions, here's one more: how is the value of the path > to Program Files (x86) being used? This value is specific to the build > machine so it wouldn't be useful in the MSI file since the machine on which > the msi is being installed may use a different path. You'd want to use > something more like the pre-defined property ProgramFilesFolder to get the > path of that folder during installation. > > Thanks, > Derek > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeffrey Altman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 5:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bug in 2.0.4310.0 - environment vars with parens in > thename > > That is a standards Windows environment variable on 64-bit Windows > builds within the WOW64 environment. > > CommonProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files > CommonProgramW6432=C:\Program Files\Common Files > > Jeffrey Altman > > Derek Cicerone wrote: >> Nested parenthesis is unsupported in both versions of WiX. Is that a >> standard Windows environment variable or one which you are defining? >> >> Derek >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeffrey > Altman >> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 4:36 PM >> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: [WiX-users] Bug in 2.0.4310.0 - environment vars with parens in >> thename >> >> In build 2419 it was possible to evaluate the value of the environment >> variable >> >> CommonProgramFiles(x86) >> >> within a define as such >> >> <?define CPF="$(env.CommonProgramFiles(x86))"?> >> >> In 2.0.4310.0 this is broken as the close parens are no longer matched >> with the open parens. >> >> Are there any quoting rules that can be used to make this work in the >> current build? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Jeffrey Altman >> >
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