Wix visual studio project (msi) building with wrong name

Question

I have a wix project that generates an output msi, inside the project i have set the output name using the tag. But the msi get's built with the project name instead. The msi name also changes when i change the project name.

What could be the reason for this? I need to include the $(Platform) with the output name.

scaler · Accepted Answer · 2024-11-05 14:52:45Z

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This is hard to answer without seeing your wixproj file. Most likely you set the OutputName too early in your targets execution path.

What would definitely work is (Wix5):

<Target Name="SetOutputFileName" BeforeTargets="AssignTargetPaths">
<PropertyGroup>
  <TargetName>Yourname$(Platform)</TargetName>
  <TargetFileName>$(TargetName)$(TargetExt)</TargetFileName>
  <TargetPath>$(TargetDir)$(TargetFileName)</TargetPath>
</PropertyGroup>
</Target>

or (Wix3x)

<Target Name="SetOutputFileName" BeforeTargets="BeforeBuild">
<PropertyGroup>
  <TargetName>Yourname$(Platform)$(TargetExt)</TargetName>
</PropertyGroup>
</Target>

answered Nov 5, 2024 at 14:52

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