Use INSTALLDIR as install location switch for WiX installers #2671
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sharunkumar
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| {InstallerSwitchType::Silent, ManifestInstaller::string_t("/quiet /norestart")}, | ||
| {InstallerSwitchType::SilentWithProgress, ManifestInstaller::string_t("/passive /norestart")}, | ||
| {InstallerSwitchType::Log, ManifestInstaller::string_t("/log \"" + std::string(ARG_TOKEN_LOGPATH) + "\"")}, | ||
| {InstallerSwitchType::InstallLocation, ManifestInstaller::string_t("INSTALLDIR=\"" + std::string(ARG_TOKEN_INSTALLPATH) + "\"")} | ||
| }; |
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previously, InstallerTypeEnum::Burn case would fallthrough to InstallerTypeEnum::Msi, but now is going to fallthrough to this code? 🤔
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@SpecterShell - I'm assuming this will need to be rebased and/or have the merge conflicts resolved, if this is something which you still want to raise the PR for |
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Among all the MSI installers I have processed so far, some of them use |
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-l,--locationoption not working on all msi packages #1857MSI installers built by WiX Toolset use different switches such as
INSTALLDIRinstead ofTARGETDIRas install location parameter. While adding new packages and reworking old packages, I noticed that most WiX installers are usingINSTALLDIR. I felt that it is necessary to replace the current install location switch withINSTALLDIRsince some new building toolchains like Tauri Builder are using WiX as the default installer builder, where developers are less likely to modify the WiX template and don't know what switches should be used for WinGet manifest.However, the custom location switch may vary among WiX installers according to #1857 (comment). In case of potential conner cases, I will draft this PR and look into the remaining packages in winget-pkgs repo to see the proportion of switches they are using.
Some of the conner cases:
INSTALLLOCATIONLiErHeXun.QuickerMicrosoft Reviewers: Open in CodeFlow