[wix-users] can we pass custom property to a .bat file in the installer?

[Reddy, Shivshankar]

Hi John,

I think you misunderstood question.

He is trying to pass parameters to .bat file which will be called during installation of msi.

Example : We have setup.msi created by wix.
We have a.bat file inside the setup.msi. We are trying to call that a.bat file in CustomAction to that we need to pass the arguments from PROPERTY1 and PROPERTY2.


Yan, is this you were asking ? if not I apologies for deviating your query.


Thank you

Regards
Shiv




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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of John Cooper
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It's more batch than WiX.  See http://ss64.com/nt/ for extensive help on batch.

Say your property name is INSTALLFOLDER.  For MSI, the property you are setting must be a public property, and all public properties in MSI are identified by being in all caps.

Let's say you want to set INSTALLFOLDER to C:\Program Files\TheProduct

This value has space(s), and so it will need to be quoted.  It is also possible, in some instances, that you'll need to escape some characters, and you can find help there.

Calling is MYBAT.CMD "C:\Program Files\TheProduct\"

By convention, most paths in MSI expect to be terminated with a "\".

Inside, you'll have something like:

INSTALLFOLDER=%1

Which will take the first parameter.

This will expand to INSTALLFOLDER="C:\Program Files\TheProduct\"

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Any instruction on how to do it? A simple sample would help me out... I am just a new to this software.



Thanks a lot!



Yan



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Yes, I do it all the time.  You need to respect quoting rules with some values.



I've also used Octopus substitutions in PowerShell script to deploy MSI's and Burn Bundles in this manner.



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Hi!



Wondering if we can pass custom parameters from msi to an bat file inside msi....



For example,  after we create package.msi, we can do this msiexec /i c:\path\to\package.msi /quiet /qn /norestart /log c:\path\to\install.log PROPERTY1=value1 PROPERTY2=value2



but values of PROPERTY1 and PREPERTY2 will pass to a .bat file as %1 and %2



Thanks a lot!



Yan









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