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The following doesn’t compile, but how can I get the equivalent functionality of [MYDIR]?
<Component Id="MyComponent" Guid="MY_GUID" KeyPath="yes" Directory="[MYDIR]">
<File Source="MyFile.dll" Name="MyFile.dll"/>
</Component>
(I’m trying to put the file MyFile.dll into a directory whose path is determined when the installer is actually run.)
The
Directoryattribute must correspond to a<Directory>tag somewhere in your installer. You can set that directory to the value of a property that gets set at runtime. A good example of this is using the WixUI_InstallDir to ask the user where they want to install an application.Here is an example of usage: https://wixtoolset.org//documentation/manual/v3/wixui/dialog_reference/wixui_installdir.html