Wix Toolset - Reference Binary - Separate wxs file

Question

I am starting to use Wix toolset to create installers and I am trying to get to grips with it.

I have a large product.wxs file which holds everything and I am trying to split it up into separate wxs files (fragments) for binaries, properties and sequencing.

I have been able to split up the properties by including a "PropertyRef" of one of the properties within product.wxs to allow all of the properties to be referenced, however I am not sure on how to do this for binaries and sequencing?

Any advise in this area please?

Thank you for any assistance on this.

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Answer 1

I have found a workaround - not sure if this is the correct way to do this but it works.

Within the separate wxs files (binaries, sequencing etc.) create a property and then reference this property within the main product.wxs file

So you would create a dummy property as below within the separate binaries wxs file

<Property Id="BinaryRef" Value="1"></Property>

then reference this property within the main product.wxs file as below

<PropertyRef Id="BinaryRef"/>

Referencing this property from the binaries wxs file will then pull all the rest of the data in, this can be done for any separate wxs file.