[wix-users] Calling 3rd Party Installer from within Bundle

[Walter Dexter]

You can use heat to harvest the directory rather than hand building the XML.

> On Nov 29, 2016, at 11:54 AM, Mark Kunkel <mck at ingersoll.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Rob.
> 
> Can the SourceFile be a folder, or must I list each file separately? In this
> case there are 87 files in the folder. Large, but not ridiculous.
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of
> Rob Mensching
> Sent: November 29, 2016 11:41 AM
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> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Calling 3rd Party Installer from within Bundle
> 
> Yes. Add Payload under ExePackage.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of
> Mark Kunkel
> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2016 9:30 AM
> To: wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
> Subject: [wix-users] Calling 3rd Party Installer from within Bundle
> 
> The situation that I have is this. I have a bundle from within this bundle I
> want to call a 3rd party installer from the chain. This 3rd party installer
> a collection of files stored in a directory. Can I include these files and
> call the 3rd party installer within the chain so that I distribute only one
> exe (bundle.exe)? I know that I can do this if the 3rd party installer was a
> MSI, but unfortunately it is not.
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