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Hi,

I'm moving an existing build procedure from bat files to Finalbuilder. In the project we use WIX to build msi files, and have a number of .wxs configuration files which alle have relative file references.

I added the WIX candle and Light actions to my project, but since I can not specify a starting folder, all file references in my .wxs files must either be absolute or relative to the WIX executables to work. Is there a way around this, so I don't need to change all the file references in my existing .wxs files?

Thanks,

Rasmus Aaen

 

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Hi Rasmus,

In the BeforeAction script event of the Wix actions you can set the “current directory” for Windows which should solve this problem. The script would be something like:

SetCurrentDir(“c:\my dir”);

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