You can add a zip file and unzip using a custom action but remember that the MSI will not uninstall all the files that were unzipped.(only the .zip file will be deleted ) You will have to write a Custom Action to delete that also.
-----Original Message----- From: Marco Tognacci [mailto:mark...@live.it] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 2:41 PM To: WiX - users Subject: [WiX-users] FW: Unzip file after install I have some folders with localized html documentation, each folder contains many files, and they are not vital for my application, I harvest the folder using heat to build the wxs and then the msi.The installation of these folders is very very slow as heat doesn't order the files based on directory and the setup when during install will change the current directory for each file to install, and every file is marked as keypath. To speed up installation process I'd like to add the zipped folders to my msi and then unzip them with a custom action, is there any build in system for doing this with WiX, using an extension for example? I need to add each localized folder inside a different msiFeature and then I need to run the custom action when the feature is selected to be installed (and removed on uninstall removeing all the folder). Apart of the speedup of the installation process, I have a problem with some folders that I can't harvest using heat as the full path of files with relative folders tree exceed the max limit of characters that can be passed to heat.exe as command args for the path of the folder to harvest, and in this case using the zipped folders to be unzipped from the msi during installation will be the only choice. Which is the best way for doing this? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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
