How to Select Features From Command Line

Question

This might be a naive question. I have to manually edit a .WXS file to make it support select features from command line.

For example, there are 3 features in .WXS file.

<Feature Id="AllFeature" Level='1'>

    <Feature Id="Feature1" Level='1'> </Feature>

    <Feature Id="Feature2" Level='1'> </Feature>

    <Feature Id="Feature3" Level='1'> </Feature>

</Feature>

Now, I want to select features from command line. Say, if I type "msiexec /i install.msi FEATURE=A", then "Feature1" and "Feature2" is installed; if I type "msiexec/i install.msi FEATURE=B", then "Feature1" and "Feature3" is installed. In this case, "A" maps to Feature 1 and 2; "B" maps to Feature 1 and 3.

How to accomplish this in WIX?

Answer 1

The accepted answer already mentions the ADDLOCAL property, but seems to imply that you can select only one feature. You can actually select multiple features by seperating them by commas like this:

msiexec /i install.msi ADDLOCAL=Feature1,Feature2

or

msiexec /i install.msi ADDLOCAL=Feature2,Feature3

Another hint: you can discover these feature names by opening the msi with orca. This is very useful when you want to use these tricks to create a bootstrapper that installs certain features of thirdparty msi packages.