Deployment of external payload with wix bundle

Question

We are using Wix to deploy our application. But for deploying our application we need to first deploy an application which is a prerequisite for our application. And the setup for that application is available to us as an external payload which we will be shipping along with our application setup.

Fig 1: this .exe is the main wix bundle we will be using to install our application. And the setup of prerequisite is inside the folder ”issetupprerequisites\{9BA97839-8D57-467D-8FDF-487966F8A4C2}”.

Fig 2: this is the setup.exe which we are shipping with our product which needs to be installed as a pre-requisite to our product.

But the problem we are facing is to give the path for that pre- requisite application exe , since that path will be a relative path because different user will be installing it from different location.

We decided to use a variable called [WixBundleOriginalSourceFolder] but are unable to use that.

Fig 3: Giving the path for that exe in this way so that we can install the external payload from our wix bundle on any machine , but failing to do so since path is not recognized.

Fig 4: giving this error.

Please guide us on how to give the path for that external payload exe so that it works on all the machines without any issues.

NOTE: we are using wix version 3.10 for our project.

Answer 1

Payload/@Name is not a formatted value, so you're specifying that there is a folder literally named [InstallFolder]. It should work if you just use issetupprerequisites\{9BA97839-8D57-467D-8FDF-487966F8A4C2}\setup.exe.