WiX and InstallCommand

Question

I'm using WIX Link, and I'm instaling *exe file, lets say program.exe by:

      <ExePackage Id="Dependency1" Name="Program" Cache="no" Compressed="yes" PerMachine="yes" Permanent="yes" Vital="yes"
              InstallCommand="/S CONF_FILE=&quot;%appdata%/program/programConfig.xml&quot;; ..."
              SourceFile="program.exe"/>

And it's dont load that files, the path is ok, and when I'm starting program.exe by cmd:

program.exe  CONF_FILE="%appdata%/program/programConfig.xml"

it works fine, is there any problem refering to appdata in WIX?

Seems like those forward slashes should be blackslashes. `cmd` may be fixing those for you automatically. — Lynn Crumbling, Aug 28 '14 at 14:31
What is showing up in the logs as the command being run? My msi logs show up in `%APPDATA%\Local\Temp\*.msi.log` — Lynn Crumbling, Aug 28 '14 at 16:33

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 28 '14 at 18:52

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Burn doesn't expand environment variables. You need to use the built-in Burn variable AppDataFolder

InstallCommand='/S CONF_FILE="[AppDataFolder]program\programConfig.xml" ...'

answered Aug 28 '14 at 18:52

Sean Hall

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