[wix-users] Burn - Include Installer Conditionally

Farrukh Waheed farrukh1 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 30 11:26:29 PDT 2016


You can achieve this by using pre-processor variables
http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/overview/preprocessor.html


On 30 August 2016 at 00:21, Ashutosh Vyas <ashutosh at softserv.in> wrote:

> I am currently using WIX to create installers for my application.
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> Also using BURN to chain the pre-requisites like .NET Framework and SQL
> Server Express to be installed with it.
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> Since I am fairly new to WIX, I am not sure how BURN includes packages.
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> Currently my issues is that the overall size of the installer is approx
> 580MB. I would like to reduce the size of this installer. So was thinking
> that as anyways, X64 and X86 are compiled as different Setups. Why not have
> a condition such that only x64 installer of SQL Express is included in x64
> setup and same for x86.
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> Please let me know if this is at all possible.
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> Thanks
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> Ashutosh
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