Can I have a single installer project that will build 2 (or more) platforms but the contents are slightly different? And when I build one platform, IA doesn't care that the files for the other platform are missing (from GUI preferrably)?
I have a common set of files (a) and platform specific files (b) and (c), i would like to build Platform 1 with (ab) without worrying that (c) is not present. Currently with the GUI, it will complain that these files are missing.
Perhaps assigning a component or feature to a platform? Or must I have seperate projects per platform to accomplish this?
Yes, you can! You have an IA option to ignore missing files when loading and when building the project, and then what you need to do is to add all files to your project, and put the platform condition on the needed files. Thus when any of the platforms is built, only the necessary files are included (and the files for the other platforms are ignored).
Well, there might be another option, which is project related. Go to the Build tab, then to Distribution and then check Optimize Installer Size by Platform. Does this do the trick? If not, would it be possible for you to post your project and the build logs?
From the command line, this seems to work. I will have to test the results, but at least there is something there. It does issue a warning about missing files but continues.
From the GUI, it just displays two "Source Path XXXX incorrect" dialogs when it can't find the first file for two different source paths. Those two files are not meant to be distributed with that platform, thus do not exist.
Well, that is definitely odd. But as we, for instance, have an automatic build process, that uses the command line build, all these things work (and we no longer can build the projects in graphic mode, as there are quite a few preprocessing operations).
