Hello Gerry,
I have custom actions that handle spaces in path names. Here is an example:
ExeCommand="/install /min_version $(var.min_matlab) /max_version
$(var.max_matlab) "[MergeRedirectFolder]quarc""
I notice that in your case you quoted the path as "[INSTALLDIR]"/myprogram.exe.
The DOS interpreter won't handle that as you want it to because the quote is in
the middle of the path. Try "[INSTALLDIR]/myprogram.exe" instead. If
that doesn't work then you can go to the lengths described in
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/twistylittlepassagesallalike/archive/2011/04/23/everyone-quotes-arguments-the-wrong-way.aspx.
Sincerely,
Daniel Madill
-----Original Message-----
From: Gerry Reno [mailto:gr...@verizon.net]
Sent: December-19-13 8:31 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] ExeCommand will not accept any path with spaces
I have been trying to get WIX to deal with an ExeCommand which uses INSTALLDIR
which contains spaces in the path without
success.
I won't repeat the bug I opened on this. Here is the link:
http://wixtoolset.org/issues/4257/
As you can see in the bug. I cannot get a cmd.exe to launch one of my programs
in INSTALLDIR because it cuts off the
path at the first space.
The relevant code section is:
<Binary Id='CMDEXE' SourceFile='C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe' />
<CustomAction Id='LaunchSetup' BinaryKey='CMDEXE'
Execute='deferred'
ExeCommand='/k "[INSTALLDIR]"/myprogram.exe' Return='asyncWait'
/>
The result is this:
'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>
I've tried single-quote, double-quote, multiple-quotes, " , nothing works.
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