You need to separate the WiX toolset from MSBuild in your mind. Treat the WiX toolset the way you would treat csc.exe or vbc.exe or (actually more like) cl.exe/link.exe. Anything written in the language being compiled is completely contained within the compilation process. MSBuild (or NAnt or make.exe or whatever you want to use) is driving the outputs from those tools in a coordinated manner. You need some MSBuild syntax to set the property you want. I'm not an MSBuild guru so I'm not much more help than that. Sorry.
-----Original Message----- From: Colin Fox [mailto:greenene...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 15:52 To: wix-users Subject: [WiX-users] Setting the output name with a variable I've asked this before but haven't gotten a solid answer, so I'll try one more time. I need to be able to incorporate a modified form of the package version into the .msi name. What would be ideal would be the ability to reference the "!(bind.fileVersion.MyPackageEXE)" as part of the output name, something like: DeluxeInstaller_!(bind.fileVersion.MyPackageEXE).msi I've had no luck shooting in the dark with different forms of the variable. Setting the "OutputName" field to include either a $() variable or a !() bind variable doesn't work, and the bind variable seems to no longer be in scope at the post-build-event stage (where I could simply write a line of DOS that renames the file. Is the only option to me at this point truly to write a separate stand-alone application that will have to go get the version information from the binaries itself and do a rename? That seems incredibly lame, since all the information I need is available during the wix processing, but I just don't seem to be able to get at it. I REALLY don't want to have to make an ugly hack just to add the version number into the filename. Please don't tell me that that is the only way. -- Regards, cf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
