Heat is a harvesting tool that creates .wxs files that can be used to create an installer.
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Using heat.exe to add bulk files to a new WiX project: HEAT5150
If this is a repeat question, please direct me to the existing solution. I wasn't able to find a matching query.
We currently use InstallShield. I'm attempting to covert a project with 407 files to a WiX3 installation package. I tried using…
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Does the WIX heat utility work with Visual C++ projects?
I am just starting to use Wix and would like to use heat to extract the outputs from my Visual C++ projects to source Wix files. This seems to work great for my C# projects, however, whenever I run heat on a C++ project I get an error:
heat project…
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Leveraging heat.exe and harvest already localized file names and including them to msi using wix
I have a question whether what i am trying to do is doable, and if the answer is yes how to do it.
I am new to the wix and have been doing some reading on how dynamically to include a folder to an installer and eventually i were able to do a task in…
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Setting directory of ComponentGroupRef in Wix?
I have used the Heat tool to generate a wxs file based on a folder whose contents I want to install. This gives me a large file like this:
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Copying directory structure using wix
So I have a huge file structure which I want the installer, I am building using wix, to copy on the client location. Currently I am typing it out like:
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How to make Wix Heat.exe retain custom file id?
I have a ASP.NET core app for which I am creating a WIX installer. I am using Heat to generate all the files:
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What does kernel thermal zone mean in dts file?
In the dts file of my kernel, I have:
thermal-zones {
cpu0_thermal: cpu0-thermal {
thermal-sensors = <&tmuctrl_0>;
polling-delay-passive = <1000>;
polling-delay = <1000>;
trips {
cpu_alert0:…
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WiX Toolset: .xslt filter doesn't return desired output
I am trying to apply .xslt filter when harvest files using heat.exe in WiX 4.0. For example I want to exclude all .pdb files from result. But output after filter is the same as input .wxs file. It seems like it does not apply my filter. Is it…
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WIX Heat PreBuild Variable Name for Directory to Harvest
I'm working on a new installer (first one using WiX). I'm using Heat to harvest the output files from a referenced project solution and I've got it working well. The issue is that I'm using an absolute path to my harvest directory in my heat call…
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Wix heat for per machine installer
I use the following command to create a wxs file for class registry, using heat:
"C:\Program Files\Windows Installer XML v3.5\bin\heat.exe"
file MyAddin.dll -ag -template fragment -out MyAddin.wxs
The result is registry entries per user.…
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How can I use bind.FileVersion when harvesting using Heat?
I've previously used...
... to define a version variable for use in my installers. For the first time I'm using Heat.exe to harvest the files/folders I need in my installer (which…
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msbuild+wix : how to get heatdirectory to use defineconstants's variable?
hello everybody : my first post !
i am trying to get a wixproj using heatdirectory to take its source directory using visualstudio's "Define Constants" feature, in which i define a constant SourceBinaries=c:\someproject\bin\release.
The purpose is…
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HeatDirectory componentid duplicated
In my project there is several modules. Source files for them are generated by heatdirectory.
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Using heat.exe, enable gac only specific list of binaries dynamically read from a .txt file
I'm using heat.exe (harvest directory type) to auto-generate wix authoring. There are ~40 dlls, out of which I want to GAC only a list of 10 dlls, list is available in a .txt file. Yes, I used XSLT (which I'm very new to), I'm able to do it with…
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Optimising an 1D heat equation using SIMD
I am using a CFD code (for computational fluid dynamic). I recently had the chance to see Intel Compiler using SSE in one of my loops, adding a nearly 2x factor to computation performances in this loop. However, the use of SSE and SIMD instructions…
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