Windows installer has a bunch of properties that you have access to that will handle this for you. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372057.aspx
<Property Id="COMMANDPROMPT">[SystemFolder]cmd.exe</Property> Should work except that you might need a custom action to set it. -----Original Message----- From: Alicia Holloway [mailto:ahollo...@sounddes.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 1:53 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How to add an Operating System specific shortcut Hi, I have a Wix project in which I am trying to add a shortcut to a command prompt which calls a batch file as a command line argument. With the code I have so far (see below), I can get it to work on Windows XP only, because the environment variable it's using to find the cmd.exe program is determined at compile time (and it's being compiled on an XP). It doesn't work on Windows 2000 because the system32 directory is not under "Windows" but rather, under "WINNT". The shortcut appears on the start menu on Windows 2000 systems but, clicking on properties displays the line: "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k projectvars.bat"...so it can't find cmd.exe. Product.wxs: ------------------ <Property Id="COMMANDPROMPT">$(env.WINDIR)\system32\cmd.exe</Property> (alternatively, $(env.ComSpec) could be used instead of $(env.WINDIR)\system32\cmd.exe) Files.wxs: -------------- <Shortcut Name="Project Command Prompt" Target="[COMMANDPROMPT]" Arguments="/k projectvars.bat" Id="CommandLineStartMenuShortcut" WorkingDirectory="BinFolder" Icon="ProjectVarsIcon.exe" Directory="ProjectToolsProgramMenuFolder"> <Icon Id="ProjectVarsIcon.exe" SourceFile="cmd.ico"/> </Shortcut> Is there any way to modify this code so that it determines the value of the environment variable at runtime? Or, is there a way of setting a different filepath so that it uses the Sys32Folder property somehow? I briefly attempted to change the property to: <Property Id="COMMANDPROMPT">[Sys32Folder]\cmd.exe</Property> to see if that could work...but was given the following warning when I tried to compile it: "If this value is a string literal, not a property reference, please ignore this warning. To set a property with the value of another property, use a CustomAction with Property and Value attributes." But wasn't able to figure out how a CustomAction would apply in this situation. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Best Regards, Alicia ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
