[wix-users] How to Create multiple dirs in a component ?

[Winter,Stijn S. de]

Hello Gary,

You could run a bat file in a customaction before install which creates the dirs.
But why does the application fail if you do not create the dirs before installing?
Normally if you reference a directory and put something inside it WiX will automatically create the directory.
You can also create empty directories:
<ComponentGroup Id="EmptyDirs">
    <Component Id="EmptyDir1Component" Directory="EmptyDir1" Guid="YOUR-GUID-HERE">
        <CreateFolder />
    </Component>
</ComponentGroup>

If you think that it will be to much work to do this for all 90 directories you can use heat or write a script.
The installation i am making is way too big to write by hand so i have to create a program that will create the installer.

Could you provide more information so we can help?

Best Regards,
Stijn de Winter

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Van: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> namens Gary M <garym at oedata.com>
Verzonden: vrijdag 18 maart 2016 9:25
Aan: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List
Onderwerp: Re: [wix-users] How to Create multiple dirs in a component ?

Hi Stijn

As in the prior email, each file and dir must be tracked individually. Not
usually a big issue. However, some directories are require to be created
before the application component executes, otherwise the application fails.

Placing the multiple dirs under one component makes upgrades
and feature substitution easier.  Again this would be not an issue.
However, I have about 90 directories in total.

v/r
gary

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 1:57 AM, Winter,Stijn S. de <
stijn.dewinter at student.fontys.nl> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Do you want to create multiple empty directories or to copy files to
> multiple directories?
> As far as i know you can only reference 1 Directory in the <Component>
> tag, this would make you unable to create multiple dirs in one component.
>
> But why would you want to create multiple directories in a single
> component?
>
> Best Regards,
> Stijn de Winter
>
> ________________________________________
> Van: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> namens Gary M <
> garym at oedata.com>
> Verzonden: vrijdag 18 maart 2016 6:09
> Aan: wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
> Onderwerp: [wix-users] How to Create multiple dirs in a component ?
>
> I'm new to wix and I'd like to create multiple dirs within components. Is
> there a way to do this ?
>
> thx
> -g
>
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