If you haven't already seen this<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/471424/wix-tricks-and-best-practices>, I suggest you check it out. Lots of good bits in there, the first in particular should give you some ideas about how you might best structure your projects and hopefully minimize your overhead. There's a lot you can do with <?include ?> and the environment variables.
Stryder On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 1:24 PM, JKLists <jkli...@ifm-services.com> wrote: > Are there any "best practices" for managing a larger WiX project in > VS2008? I need to create four MSIs (32/64 bit versions of two releases, > differing only by configuration files.). > > * 32-bit specific WiX project containing 32-bit libraries from > developers > * 64-bit specific WiX project containing 64-bit libraries from > developers > * Generated WiX code (massaged heat output). > * Common files > * Configuration files for release A and release B. These have > identical file names, just different content. > > > I'm assuming that I need the following in the VS solution: > > * Four WiX projects, one for release A and B, 32- and 64-bit. > * A WiX library for the generated code. (This is huge and takes > quite a bit of time.) > * A WiX library for the common files. > * A WiX library for release A configuration. > * A WiX library for release B configuration. > > I assume that I do this: > > * Add the WiX library projects outputs to the WiX projects > "References". > * Set the WiX project dependencies to the WiX library projects. > * Use different GUIDs for all of the WiX project upgrade, product, > etc. GUIDs. > > > Is that it? > Am I overlooking anything? > > Thanks! > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
