Hi Mark, One reference I happened upon has a small table of Votove pre-processor variables:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302186.aspx The table is about half-way down the scroll. Hope it helps. Raj -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mark.modrall Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 5:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] pre-defined variables? Thanks, Julie... I was referring more the Wix pre-processor (the variables that exist when running Wix to build the msi). http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix2/preprocessor.htm describes the basic structure and 1 or 2 pre-defined variables but is obviously not complete. After googling for a long time, I saw some people referencing $(var.Platform) as pre-defined, for example. I plugged that in my .wxs and didn't see an undefined var error. But there's no documentation I've found anywhere that says $(var.Platform) should/will exist. And drawing from the Visual Studio model, I was wondering if analogs to $(OutDir), $(ConfigurationName), etc exist since an analog for $(PlatformName) does. I tried $(var.Config), $(var.Configuration), $(var.ConfigurationName) but none of those names were recognized. Thanks Mark -----Original Message----- From: Julie Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 5:11 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net; mark.modrall Subject: RE: [WiX-users] pre-defined variables? Mark, My favorite trick is to run an existing or very basic .msi with full logging. Then you can search the log file for "Property(C)" and/or "Property(S)". To run with full logging, run from a command line: MyMsi.msi /lv*x MyMsiLog.txt There is also actual documentation: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370905.aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372057.aspx And a place I've been collecting information: http://wix.mindcapers.com/wiki/WiX_Properties Julie Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------ > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:16:16 -0500 > From: "mark.modrall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [WiX-users] pre-defined variables? > To: <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi... > > I've been googling around to find a list of pre-defined variables > that exist in Wix (any pre-existing $(var.) or $(env.) like VS has > $(outdir), $(configurationname), etc), but so far no luck. > > Does such a reference exist? > > thanks > mark ________________________________________________________________________ _____ Scanned by IBM Email Security Management Services powered by MessageLabs. For more information please visit http://www.ers.ibm.com ________________________________________________________________________ _____ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
