[wix-users] Platform variable value for Suffix in IIS Custom Action

[Blair Murri]

Try $(sys.BUILDARCH)

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From: Ven H <venh.123 at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2019 9:24:25 AM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Platform variable value for Suffix in IIS Custom Action

Hi Blair,

I am calling that custom action inside InstallExecute sequence with a condition to make sure it gets executed only when my App feature is getting installed and not during the DB feature execution, because it was slowing things down otherwise and it was showing confusing status messages during DB feature installation. However, I had to hard code the value of Platform variable in the .wxi file, since I don't know how to set it otherwise.



On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 5:21 AM Blair Murri <osito at live.com<mailto:osito at live.com>> wrote:
What are you trying to do? The supported way to use the IIS custom action is to use the WiX IIS extension, which will schedule it for you.

If you are trying to reference the custom action (to change its location in the installation sequence, or to schedule other actions relative to this one) the name of the custom action depends on the platform of the MSI, not the platform of the machine it's run on.

var.platform will be set in your WiX sources for you, based on the command-line switches/project settings you build with.

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Subject: [wix-users] Platform variable value for Suffix in IIS Custom Action

For IIS Custom Action (Built-in), there is a following line of code.

<Custom Action="ConfigureIIs$(var.Suffix)" Before="RegisterUser"></Custom>

In the above line there is a variable $(var.Suffix), which is defined as
follows.

 <?if $(var.platform)="x86" ?>
  <?define Suffix="" ?>
  <?define DeferredSuffix="" ?>
  <?endif ?>

  <?if $(var.platform)="x64" ?>
  <?define Suffix="_x64" ?>
  <?define DeferredSuffix="_64" ?>
  <?endif ?>

I am not sure how to get the value of platform variable for Windows 2012 or
Windows 2014 or Windows 2016 Server OS in my MSI? Can anyone please help?

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