Walter Boggs wrote:
> I reverse engineered an MSI created by someone else into a wxs file 
> using dark. The wxs shows all sorts of files from Windows\System, SDK 
> folders and other places, as well as a bunch of system-level registry 
> entries. Is my installer really going to include all that? I really want 
> to just install my app and treat most other stuff as system requirements.

You shouldn't need to ship anything beyond what your application needs.

> The wxs seems to expect some sort of folder structure under the location 
> I specify as BaseInputPath (I’m using wix.targets). That means I have to 
> copy all of those files from various places into the specified tree 
> before I compile/link. Is that the normal way of doing it? Or should I 
> just edit the wxs directory element structure to point to where the 
> files actually are located? This is for an automated build situation.

The [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] can be used to point directly to a 
location.  Our 
installers get all the files from various locations on one of our servers.

Rob

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