Here's how I have done what you seem to want to do:
"ComponentGroup" file:
<Fragment>
<ComponentGroup Id="MyFiles">
<Component Directory="INSTALLDIR" Feature="DefaultFeature">
<File Source="File1.dll" />
</Component>
<Component Directory="INSTALLDIR" Feature="DefaultFeature">
<File Source="File2.dll" />
</Component>
</ComponentGroup>
</Fragment>
Main file:
<Product ...>
...
<ComponentGroupRef Id="MyFiles"/>
...
<Feature Id="DefaultFeature" Level="1"
ConfigurableDirectory="TARGETDIR"/>
...
</Product>
But in my case, I often have several features and several directories and I
want to assign several related components to different features and/or
directories, so they become my "pivot points".
-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 7:28 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to use Component/@Feature
What I was hoping was to simplify this sort of structure as I always end
up adding a Component and forgetting the ComponentRef:
<Fragment>
<DirectoryRef Id="INSTALLDIR">
<Component>
<File Source="File1.dll" />
</Component>
<Component>
<File Source="File2.dll" />
</Component>
</DirectoryRef>
</Fragment>
<Fragment>
<ComponentGroup Id="MyFiles">
<ComponentRef Id="File1.dll" />
<ComponentRef Id="File2.dll" />
</ComponentGroup>
</Fragment>
Then is my main file
<Feature Id="DefaultFeature" Level="1"
ConfigurableDirectory="TARGETDIR">
<ComponentGroupRef Id=" MyFiles " />
</Feature>
In WiX 2 there was a FragmentRef and that could be used to pull in a
feature. I'm sure this is really obvious but I missing something.
Neil
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com]
Sent: 30 November 2010 14:56
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to use Component/@Feature
Personally, I find the Component/@Directory more useful to put my
Components in a Feature instead.
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com> wrote:
> On 30-Nov-10 02:43, Neil Sleightholm wrote:
> > The problem with this is that there isn't a reference to any of the
> > components in the main install so none of the components are
> > included in the msi.
>
> Component/@Feature doesn't change the requirement that references flow
> from the entry section to fragments, not vice-versa. You need some
> reference to get the fragment linked in. ComponentGroupRef is a
> natural one but any other would do.
>
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