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Tom Beech
Tom Beech

Reputation: 2399

Copy MSI into a directory as part of installation

I am using the latest release of WiX to build my installer projects, and need a solution to my problem...

When I install ProductA.msi, i want ProductA.msi to copy itself into a directory, call it %PROGRAMFILES%\ProductA\Installer- so that the installer i used is available for re-use at %PROGRAMFILES%\ProductA\Installer\ProductA.msi

Does anyone know if this is possible?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 923

Answers (2)

NotAGenie
NotAGenie

Reputation: 475

I needed to do the same thing and ended up tossing in a powershell script as a custom action. WiX has the [OriginalDatabase] property which points to the .msi being run. I just passed that in as an argument to a quick script and it works.

param(
[string]$MsiLocation
)

echo "Creating directory"
md -Force "C:\directory"

echo "Removing current files"
rm "C:\directory\*"

echo "Copying in new .msi"
cp "$MsiLocation" "C:\directory\"

It's not elegant but it gets the job done. You can see this answer for more details.

Upvotes: 0

ElMaquinista
ElMaquinista

Reputation: 168

I am not sure if what you like to do is ok.

BUT: You can write a .bat File with robocopy that copies the msi and its files to destination and starts the .msi afterwards.

Upvotes: 1

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