Another thing I just noticed... In Wix 2.0, <? Ifdef ?> doesn't seem to work on env variables...
I have things like <?ifdef $(env.TheBuildFolder) ?> <?define TheBuildFolder=$(env.TheBuildFolder) ?> <?else?> <?define TheBuildFolder="..\..\.." ?> <?endif?> When I ran the Wix project when $(env.TheBuildFolder) was defined, it still went to the else... Is there a way to really test for env variable definitions? Thanks Mark -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 1:08 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] A couple of Wix 2.0 questions 0. Nothing wrong with WiX v2.0. Now InstallUtil, that's a big problem. <smile/> 1. Assemblies are not committed to the GAC until InstallFinalize. Thus, you cannot depend on them during your install. 2. Nothing built into the Preprocessor about MSBuild or VS. You need to push the values down from VS or MSBuild into candle.exe. My MSBuild-fu isn't that strong so others may be of more use yere. On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Mark Modrall <mmodr...@mzinga.com> wrote: > I know I know... I shouldn't even be using it... But I inherited this old > hairball when I got here and no one has wanted to spend the time to upgrade. > > I tried to make a quick new installer using our already-written merge > modules but I ran into a couple of odd quirks... > > > 1) One merge module installs a few .net assemblies in the GAC. The > last, custom step of the new installer is to run InstallUtil.exe on an > assembly *using* one of the gac components. But InstallUtil fails because > trying to run up the assembly - bind failures, saying the gac components > aren't there. I've tried a number of things (declaring InstallFiles > explicitly, trying to explicitly set the sequence numbers, moving all the > actions to AdminExecuteSequence) and nothing has worked. Oddly, moving > everything to AdminExecuteSequence ran to completion just fine - it just > didn't execute the custom actions. Anyone out there contended with this? > Trying to put some pieces in the gac with the installer yet still have them > available to run InstallUtil.exe on something consuming them? > > 2) In my wxs, I tried to default the platform to the setting from the > VS Configuration Manager, but none of the methods I found with Google > appeared to work. None of the supposed pre-defined variables existed, and I > couldn't put a <DefineConstants> group in a 2.0 wix project. Are there any > preprocessor variables in 2.0 that will tell you what configuration you're > running in? > > Thanks > mark > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > > -- virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
