What about: 1. make zip by hand 2. add the zip file as a single file into a wix project 3. add a custom step that unzips the file
Would that work? Martin Curtis Jewell wrote: > And in my case, I'm doing the ripping using Perl instead of MSBuild. > Works for me, at least. > > (Of course, the package I'm writing is customized FOR packaging Perl and > perl modules on 32-bit Windows, but a lot of the code should still be > usable, and I may very well generalize it later! AND, it's GPL/Artistic > licensed like most Perl code. The repository is at > http://svn.ali.as/cpan/trunk/Perl-Dist-WiX/ if anybody wants to take a > look. Head down into the lib directory for the module source.) > > --Curtis > > On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 11:33:22 -0800, "David Reed" > <david.r...@microsoft.com> said: >> I'm pretty sure that there used to be, Martin, but I don't see it in v3; >> IIRC, wildcard support was explicitly dropped "by design". >> >> If you figure it out and I missed it somewhere, LMK! We wrote a custom >> MSBuild task to rip through a directory tree and write out include files >> for WiX to do this. It's on out CodePlex now in our root project, but >> that reminds me that I've been meaning to contribute it to the MSBuild >> community tasks project... >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Martin Sustrik [mailto:sust...@fastmq.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 11:25 >> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: [WiX-users] Very Simple Installer >> >> Hi, >> >> I have a directory tree I want to install at a user-specified location. >> It's as simple as that... however, I don't want to manage large xml >> definition file with an entry for each file to be packaged. >> >> Is there a way to do that with WiX? >> >> Thanks. >> Martin > -- > Curtis Jewell > swords...@csjewell.fastmail.us > > %DCL-E-MEM-BAD, bad memory > -VMS-F-PDGERS, pudding between the ears > > [I use PC-Alpine, which deliberately does not display colors and pictures in > HTML mail] > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) > software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to > build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local > resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and > Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
