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Marlos
Marlos

Reputation: 1965

DirectoryRef inside a Directory in WiX

Consider I have a WiX Setup Library Project named MyLib.wixproj with 2 files that are shared with different installers. This project has the following (simplified) structure:

MyLib.wxs:

<Wix>
  <Fragment>

    <Feature Id="MySharedFeature" ...>
      <ComponentGroupRef Id="MySharedCompGroup" />
    </Feature>

    <ComponentGroup Id="MySharedCompGroup" Directory="Directory_SharedFiles">
      <Component Id="SharedCompA" Guid="*">
        <File Id="SharedFileA Source="$(var.Source)fileA.txt" KeyPath="yes" />
      </Component>
      <Component Id="SharedCompB" Guid="*">
        <File Id="SharedFileB Source="$(var.Source)fileB.txt" KeyPath="yes" />
      </Component>
    </ComponentGroup>

    <Directory Id="Directory_SharedFiles" Name="SharedFiles" />

  </Fragment>
</Wix>

One of my installers (Setup Project) references the library this way:

Product.wxs:

<Wix>
  <Product>

    <FeatureRef Id="MySharedFeature" />

  </Product>
</Wix>

Directories.wxs:

<Wix>
  <Fragment>
    <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
      <Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder">
        <Directory Id="INSTALLDIR" Name="MyApp">

          <!-- Here I want to add a reference to Directory_SharedFiles. -->

          <Directory Id="OtherFilesNotShared" Name="MoreFiles">
          </Directory>

        <Directory>
      </Directory> 
    </Directory>
  </Fragment>
<Wix>

Inside the INSTALLDIR directory I want to add a DirectoryRef to Directory_SharedFiles, declared in my shared project. I tried using DirectoryRef but this tag doesn't exist as a child of Directory and it is not clear to me how to use Directory Id="TARGETDIR" inside the shared project, like this:

MyLib.wxs:

<!-- This code does not compile! -->
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
  <Directory Id="Directory_SharedFiles" Name="SharedFiles" />
</Directory>

</Fragment></Wix>

Is there a way to do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5164

Answers (1)

BryanJ
BryanJ

Reputation: 8563

Don't nest the DirectoryRef element under a Directory element. Put it directly under the Fragment element. Read more on DirectoryRef.

Build the directory structure in a shared WiX fragment instead of in each product separately.

Upvotes: 1

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