Thanks Nir, I was specifically looking to use a custom variable or property in
the heat.exe dir command in order to access a 'dynamic' folder structure based
on a value that's passed into the .msi. Is that possible?
For example, in the .wixproj file you would have this command in the
BeforeBuild node:
c>heat.exe dir $(ProjectDir)..\SomeStaticName\$(custom.variable)
where $(ProjectDir) is a built-in project reference variable (which is allowed)
but $(custom.variable) is either a preprocessor variable, wix variable, or
property defined in the product.wxs file. (Which currently doesn't seem
possible, but I'm hoping someone knows something that I don't.)
Does that make sense? Thanks for the help.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nir Bar [mailto:nir....@panel-sw.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 2:24 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] using custom variables on heat command line
You can use this:
-var <VariableName> Substitute File/@Source="SourceDir" with a
preprocessor or a wix variable (e.g. -var var.MySource will become
File/@Source="$(var.MySource)\myfile.txt" and -var wix.MySource will become
File/@Source="!(wix.MySource)\myfile.txt".
Or this:
-wixvar Generate binder variables instead of preprocessor variables.
Complete manual here:
http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/overview/heat.html
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