Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Wix 3.0: "tallow.exe" gone...

I decided to try WiX 3.0 (3.0.2128.0) for my current project.  And here is a first issue (with help file) I run into:
I needed to generate information about files to install. It appears that WiX 2.0 contained an utility named "tallow.exe" to enumerate a directory and generate WiX Fragment for it. But the installed version of WiX doesn't have the utility.
I did some searches, but without success - everyone referencing to "tallow.exe". I started to examine all executables in bin directory, and finally found exactly what I need - "heat.exe" utility.
So... it appears "tallow.exe" was superseded by "heat.exe". Also "heat.exe" can generate fragments about a website, but I did not tried that one.
Here is a command line to generate a WiX fragment with files information:


C:\Program Files\Windows Installer XML v3\bin>heat.exe dir D:\src\bin\ -out c:\files.wxs

I guess it will be in WiX documentation soon, but not yet...

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