[wix-users] To get the location of the msi which is getting executed ?

Farrukh Waheed farrukh1 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 19 10:55:39 PST 2015


Also try logging the msi installation and you'll get number of properties
in that log. In addition to CURRENTDIRECTORY, I also found SOURCEDIR. Both
pointing to same location.



On 19 November 2015 at 23:53, Farrukh Waheed <farrukh1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I got this from an msi log. Try to use property CURRENTDIRECTORY. It
> should expand to the location of msi file. Not sure if that was not built
> with Wix.
>
> On 19 November 2015 at 23:42, MANO MANO <mano.n.s75 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I have a exe that needs to be launched while doing msi installation, so
>> this exe will be placed in the same folder as the msi, I am thinking to
>> write a CA to get the path from where the msi is launched and use it to
>> check for this exe. So the question is will i be able to get the location
>> of the msi which is getting executed ?
>>
>> --
>> *regards,*
>> *Mano*
>>
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