Can someone point me to the place in the documentation where it explains what
files need to go on the command line for candle and what do not?
Thanks!
Siegfried
From: Mike Dimmick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 11:46 AM
To: Siegfried Heintze (Aditi); wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] How to compile and link project example?
The WiX toolset works somewhat like a C++ toolset. Candle is a 'compiler' which
parses your source code and turns it into 'object code' - in this case,
effectively writing the rows that will be written to the MSI, with placeholders
where necessary if a reference is not resolved within this fragment.
Light, the linker, takes multiple 'object files', including libraries of object
files (.wixlib files) and libraries embedded in extension DLLs, and combines
them into an MSI, MSM, or other appropriate output.
You wouldn't pass a .wxs file to light - it doesn't understand it. You have to
first compile it with candle.
In this particular case, module.wxs isn't actually needed as product.wxs is
self-contained. Its presence on the candle command line is misleading. In the
version of the tutorial I'm looking at, it's not referenced. If it were needed
then you would put the output from candle, module.wixobj, on the command line.
--
Mike Dimmick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Siegfried
Heintze (Aditi)
Sent: 28 March 2008 23:16
To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: [WiX-users] How to compile and link project example?
In the v3 chm file tutorial, they give you this instructions:
candle "module.wxs" "product.wxs"
light product.wixobj
msiexec /i product.msi /l*v product.log
What is the reason that the light command line does not include module.wxs?
Thanks,
Siegfried
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