Another option would be to use an include file and not a standalone wxs file
for the product-specific stuff:
In your %baseName%.wxs, somewhere under Product, add:
<?include $(var.CurrentProduct).specialFragment.wxi ?>
In your makefile do:
candle -DCurrentProduct=%baseName% %baseName%.wxs
Of course, you need to make sure that all elements you put in the .wxi can be
children of Product.
-----Original Message-----
From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 9:17 AM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Yet Another 'Fragment's Question
Some reference (implicit or explicit) needs to be present (whether in source or
from a compiler extension) to any one thing (just one is sufficient) from some
other already linked-in fragment (the Product/Module/Patch/PatchCreation
elements are fragments that are, by definition, already linked in) or the
linker will ignore them as unneeded code.
>From your example, a PropertyRef would be sufficient to include the
>entire
fragment, but you would need to conditionally include those PropertyRefs by
somehow incorporating your filter as a build environmental input to your code
to build similar to the way you want to.
-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Garcia [mailto:gegar...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 5:36 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] Yet Another 'Fragment's Question
Is there anyway to push in a fragment at link time without the main WXS file
containing explicit references to elements in the fragment?
I've got many wxs sources generated at build time that I'd like to not muck
about with. I was hoping that I could include a CA and some properties simply
by linking in the .wixobj at compile time instead of having to place
CustomActionRefs and PropertyRefs in half of a truckload of files.
Here's a contrived example of what I'm trying to do in the fragment...
http://pastebin.com/m34410d2e
...and when I compile product.wixobj and fragment.wixobj, nothing from the
fragment gets pulled in.
The primary motivation is to conditionally compile in a fragment if when
compiling each product WXS, the file matches a filename filter.
(oversimplified example)
=====
listOfProducts = (productA, productB, productC)
`candle.exe productB.specialFragment.wxs` //which yields
productB.specialFragment.wixobj
for ( baseName : listOfProducts )
candle.exe baseName.wxs //where these have all been generated by a build
process
light.exe sourceFileBaseName*wixobj //where for productB, the special
fragment will be included =====
Many Thanks,
-Erik Garcia
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