On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:10 AM, DEÁK JAHN, Gábor <d...@tramontana.co.hu>wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 15:02:44 -0800, Colin Fox wrote: > > Colin, > > > I'm unaware of any limitations of CAB files that would get in my > > way. My understanding of my problem is that WiX doesn't support > > this kind of operation. > > Well, actually, it's Windows Installer that doesn't support it, it's not a > WiX limitation. > > Bye, > Gábor > Ok, well I've tried to use Heat to solve my problem. To Heat's credit, it builds the xml fragment file very very quickly. Unfortunately, I am still stuck with two problems: First - The fragment file that Heat produces has absolute paths for all the file references, which is unacceptable in a multi-developer project. This directory is going to change maybe once every couple of years, so there is no point in rebuilding the .wxs fragment for every compile. I would like to create it once and just use it, but I need relative paths, like in all the other files. Second - If I *was* going to use heat.exe as part of the pre-build event for my WiX install build, I need to be able to execute it as a pre build event. But when I try (my pre-build event is this: heat dir ..\MyProj\Template -out tmpl.wxs -template:fragment -gg ), I get a ton of errors like this: Warning 11 The element 'PropertyGroup' in namespace ' http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003' has invalid child element 'UserTargetsPath' in namespace ' http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003'. List of possible elements expected: 'Property' in namespace ' http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003'. C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\WiX\v3.0\Wix.targets 53 6 Miscellaneous Files It seems that putting 'heat' into my pre-build event for my MSI build creates invalid xml...? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
