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Installing dll and header files with MSIX
Hi everyone, I'm currently looking at redesigning the deployment strategy for a Windows applications which consists of a GUI application, a CLI, and a set of libraries. I can get the GUI and ...
TomLewis The installation is unable to copy files outside of the package area by design, so you'll need something to perform the file copy. You sound like you have already looked at using the Psf, which could handle the task, but code in the GUI or CLI could also perform a copy as long as the destination is outside of the package boundary, much as one would write files to the user's Documents folder.
Tim
- Three years later, do we have another solution? Is virtual file system the solution? In my experience, we can install Python through Microsoft Store and use its standard library included in WindowsApps directory. How can we achieve it?
- I found that other applications has read-only access to WindowsApps directory. It is locked in explorer, but you can open files with read functions in your applications such as open().
