a.s.marchouk1.5524931722436252E12 asked a question.
SUPPORTDIR question. How I can use it?
Hi, all.
Please, help me to understand how it works.
Accordingly to documentation:
Support files are files that are available on the target system only during your product’s installation process. Support files are copied to a temporary directory on the target system when installation begins. The support files are deleted when the installation is complete. The support directory is a dynamic file location and might be different on every target system and even on the same system for different installation instances.
In the Support Files view (in Basic MSI, InstallScript Object, and Suite projects) or the Support Files/Billboards view (in InstallScript projects and InstallScript MSI projects), you can add and remove files that you want to be available on the target system only during installation.
So, I added my files to project and...and nothing ! When I started my installation I did not see these files inside temporary directory...But when I started installation again and installation removed previous installation my "support files" files appeared in temporary folder.
Please, how I can see my files when I do my installation steps ? (not uninstall steps)
Please, check my picture. In the message box I shown the SUPPORTDIR location. And in the file manager I highlighted the real folder with my files.
Before, I used SUPPORTDIR like this:
szPath = SUPPORTDIR + "\\CheckUserCredential.dll";
This is wrong way. It will be like this:
MsiGetProperty(hMSI, "SUPPORTDIR", szSupportDir, nvCount2);
zPath = szSupportDir + "\\CheckUserCredential.dll";
Accordingly to the documentation:
Project: Note that the value of the Windows Installer property SUPPORTDIR is not the same as the value of the InstallScript system variable SUPPORTDIR.
http://helpnet.installshield.com/installshield16helplib/mergedProjects/installshield16langref/LangrefAppend_to_path_.htm
zPath = szSupportDir ^ "CheckUserCredential.dll";