Wix4 - Any way to tell wixtoolset not to build (ignore) a file

[wmanning]

In a C# project for instance you can use following to tell the .net compiler to ignore a file

<ItemGroup>
    <Compile Remove="somefile.cs" />
</ItemGroup>

Any equivalent in Wix?

There's some wix files I want to store in the project directory as informational only.

[wmanning]

Actually you can do:

<ItemGroup>
    <EmbeddedResource Remove="somefile..." />
  </ItemGroup>

[wmanning]

I was wrong. Didn't work.

[robmen]

Depends on the file type, the following should work:

<ItemGroup>
    <Compile Remove="SomeCodeFile.wxs" />
    <EmbeddedResource Remove="SomeLocFile.wxl" />
</ItemGroup>

Or you can turn off the automatic globbing.

[wmanning]

Tried both Compile and EmbeddedResourse but didn't work. The DefaultItemExcluded in your link worked:

<PropertyGroup>
    <DefaultItemExcludes>$(DefaultItemExcludes);Theme\HyperlinkTheme Originals\**/*</DefaultItemExcludes>
</PropertyGroup>

[wmanning]

Didn't work (tried both Compile and EmbeddedResource just in case). Had a wxl file I wanted to ignore as it's informational only and was causing duplicate symbols errors (think that was the error).

But DefualtItemExcludes in your link worked:

'''xml

$(DefaultItemExcludes);Theme\HyperlinkTheme Originals*/

''''