The <Binary> element is for incorporating some binary
data within your package where the Windows Installer engine can find it. The
@SourceFile attribute is processed by WiX when you build the MSI, to include the
file in the package.
I think you're saying you want to - presumably - run a
custom action from the copy of InstallUtilLib.dll already on the end user's
system. DLL-based custom actions seem to have been designed to work only with
DLLs included in the package, either installed by the package (type 17 actions)
or in the Binary table (type 1).
You might have more luck with an EXE custom action, type
50, targetting InstallUtil.exe. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=""> for
information on the type 50 custom action, and http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix2/wix_xsd_customaction.htm for
how to author this with WiX. I think you want to do a <FileSearch> to
locate InstallUtil.exe and set a property's value to its location, then a
<CustomAction> specifying the @ExeCommand and @Property attributes to run
it.
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Mike Dimmick
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 07 September 2006 07:44
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Use of WindowsFolder property
This is probably
very straightforward but could someone help me on the
following.
When using the
'WindowsFolder' installer property as part of a directory search it works
fine.
<Property Id="NET20">
<DirectorySearch Id='NET20Dir' Path="[WindowsFolder]Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727" />
</Property>
However when using in the source file attribute of a binary
element it does not, I get the error "File of type 'Binary' with name
'[WindowsFolder]Microsoft.Net\Framework\v2.0.50757\InstallUtilLib.dll' could not
be found" from Light.exe
<Binary Id="InstallUtil"
SourceFile="[WindowsFolder]Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\InstallUtilLib.dll" />
Am I missing
something obvious here? I am trying to use the binary element to identify a dll
that already exists on the target machine.
Any assistance would
be greatly appreciated.
.
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