How to add a dependent folder for a Wix burn bootstrapper exepackage

Question

I am new to Wix burn bootstrapper so pardon my ignorance.I have a requirement where i need to install a pre-requisite using burn bootstrapper. The prerequisite is a setup.exe(third-party) which has dependency on files and a folder(containing couple of files).All these need to exists in the root of setup.exe for the setup.exe to run successfully.

example structure--

1. setup.exe
2. samplefile.rsp
3. files(this is a folder which contains files needed by setup.exe)
   1. Data1.cab
   2. Clientruntime.msi
4. anotherfile

Here is what i got so far.

    <ExePackage Id="Ingres_Client"
                Compressed="yes"
                PerMachine="yes"
                Permanent="yes"
                Vital="yes"
                SourceFile="setup.exe"
                InstallCommand="/r sampleCR.rsp"
                InstallCondition="(VersionNT &gt; v5.1 OR VersionNT64 &gt; v5.1)"
                DetectCondition="Ingres">

    </ExePackage>

I tried to include the nesessary files using PayLoad.But i cant figure out how to add a folder('files' folder) as it is as a requirement for the setup.exe

Any help is appreciated.

Discernible

Answer 1

Use the Name attribute of child Payload elements.

<ExePackage SourceFile="setup.exe">
    <Payload SourceFile="samplefile.rsp" />
    <Payload SourceFile="anotherfile" />
    <Payload Name="files\data1.cab" SourceFile="files\data1.cab" />
    <Payload Name="files\clientruntime.msi" SourceFile="files\clientruntime.msi" />
</ExePackage>

If there are lots and lots of files, it's probably better to just make a self extracting zip archive.

Albertype

Thank you Sean of the answer! Your example code really helped me! – Discernible

@Discernible Thanks. On StackOverflow, you should upvote answers that are helpful and accept answers that answered your question by clicking the checkmark next to the answer. – Albertype

If there are many files you can also use heat or paraffin to create the payload xml. For heat you will need to use a xslt transform (see #26982708). – Slugabed