Sounds like you could use tallow with the -d switch.
eg:
tallow -d C:\WiX > wix.wxs
Note that without the reditection (">") it will simply spit the document out
into the command prompt.
By including that wxs file within another wxs file you will be able to
reference all of the components in there. In fact if you wrote a script you
could even do it so that it replaces all the Guid="PUT-GUID-HERE" with
proper GUIDs.
Have a gander at http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson5.php this , I know
it starts off dealing with installing DLLs but underneath that there is a
bit on the various tallow parameters.
Hope that helps,
Alexei
Matt.Thompson wrote:
>
>
> Hello to all in the group,
>
> I'm looking at using WiX to create MSIs for deploying binaries, web
> content
> and anything else we need to. There's nothing complex, just take the files
> created by the build and package them so they can be easily deployed to
> servers. The install is a glorified xcopy really, MSIs offer the ability
> to
> know exactly what we have on a system other than that we don't use the
> other functionality. The user doesn't face any choice when installing.
>
> The reason I'm looking at WiX is because it is supported by (or
> supports...) MSBuild and as such can be used in MSs Team System setup.
>
> What I'd like is have a script that will take any files in a particular
> folder, create the respective .wxs file (based on a template) and then
> build it.
>
> In my search I've read about tallow, heat and clickthru but i haven't seen
> much documentation around the WiX website for help file... I believe
> development on Tallow has stopped - are Heat and ClickThru still being
> developed? Are they usable and would they do what i want (above)?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
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