Re: [WiX-users] Duplicate symbol when using CompilerCore.CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow
Ok, minor facepalm moment here. It turned out that my component library project had a reference to my action library from when I was testing the action out before turning it into an extension. When this was combined with the reference created from the code, this created two references to the same thing in the same code, which gave me the error. I removed that and it worked just fine. The lesson to learn from this is to double-check those references if you get into these issues. I'm considering raising a bug because a) this error was kind of bogus in that the second reference could have been safely ignored, and b) the error message didn't really point to the reference on the component library project. It was only when I was ready to give up and abandon the 'wixlib-in-the-dll' idea as a bad job that I spotted this extra reference. Thanks for the help On 11 July 2013 17:44, John Ludlow john.ludlow...@gmail.com wrote: @Nick: Yes, I'm trying to use the extension in a library which is then used in a setup project. The resulting project relationships would be something like this: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzqWyEdx-NBBeDM5ZlJGejRoNE0/edit?usp=sharing The reason for this is that the setup project is just metadata related to the MSI itself. This makes it easy to include those components in some other setup, or even a merge module, just by adding the correct references to the correct projects. Is this not common practice? The other reason is that our body of setup code is sufficiently large that we need to split it up somehow. @Blair: The original error appears to be due to missing code in the extension. I'm not sure what missing code you were referring to here. On 11 July 2013 02:50, Blair Murri os...@live.com wrote: There are several ways to make the *Ref. One way is to author a *Ref/ element. Another is to use CompilerCore.CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow(). Either works the same as the other. The original error appears to be due to missing code in the extension. The second error (caused by trying to workaround that first error) appears to be caused by making an explicit reference to the wixlib that the extension contains along with the extension (causing double references). Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 13:57:00 -0700 From: nickra...@hotmail.com To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Duplicate symbol when using CompilerCore.CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow Okay, I maybe wasn't fully understanding the problem. :) So, you're saying that you want to use your extension in another WIXLIB (unrelated to the WIXLIB you used to build your extension)...but when you try that, but don't reference the extension in your Setup project too, you get the error Cannot find the table definitions for As far as I can tell, you need to have the project reference for the extension in both the WIXLIB and the Setup project. To make your WIXLIB work, i.e. to pull the contents of the WIXLIB into your MSI (this may be the part you're missing?), you need to put a Property in the WIXLIB and then use a PropertyRef that points to that Property in your Setup file. This creates the link between the library and the MSI, pulling in all of the contents (your components, your new extension elements, etc.) that are in the library's Fragment into the MSI. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Duplicate-symbol-when-using-CompilerCore-CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow-tp7587243p7587281.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics
Re: [WiX-users] Duplicate symbol when using CompilerCore.CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow
@Nick: Yes, I'm trying to use the extension in a library which is then used in a setup project. The resulting project relationships would be something like this: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzqWyEdx-NBBeDM5ZlJGejRoNE0/edit?usp=sharing The reason for this is that the setup project is just metadata related to the MSI itself. This makes it easy to include those components in some other setup, or even a merge module, just by adding the correct references to the correct projects. Is this not common practice? The other reason is that our body of setup code is sufficiently large that we need to split it up somehow. @Blair: The original error appears to be due to missing code in the extension. I'm not sure what missing code you were referring to here. On 11 July 2013 02:50, Blair Murri os...@live.com wrote: There are several ways to make the *Ref. One way is to author a *Ref/ element. Another is to use CompilerCore.CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow(). Either works the same as the other. The original error appears to be due to missing code in the extension. The second error (caused by trying to workaround that first error) appears to be caused by making an explicit reference to the wixlib that the extension contains along with the extension (causing double references). Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 13:57:00 -0700 From: nickra...@hotmail.com To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Duplicate symbol when using CompilerCore.CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow Okay, I maybe wasn't fully understanding the problem. :) So, you're saying that you want to use your extension in another WIXLIB (unrelated to the WIXLIB you used to build your extension)...but when you try that, but don't reference the extension in your Setup project too, you get the error Cannot find the table definitions for As far as I can tell, you need to have the project reference for the extension in both the WIXLIB and the Setup project. To make your WIXLIB work, i.e. to pull the contents of the WIXLIB into your MSI (this may be the part you're missing?), you need to put a Property in the WIXLIB and then use a PropertyRef that points to that Property in your Setup file. This creates the link between the library and the MSI, pulling in all of the contents (your components, your new extension elements, etc.) that are in the library's Fragment into the MSI. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Duplicate-symbol-when-using-CompilerCore-CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow-tp7587243p7587281.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Duplicate symbol when using CompilerCore.CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow
A WixExtension used in the way you describe usually supplies three things: a CompilerExtension (to parse your new elements and attributes), a Table definition (comes from a tables.xml-style file with the definitions of the tables unique to your extension), and a binary-wixlib (containing your CAs and related authoring). Usually your CompilerExtension will supply two things: references to items in your wixlib, and rows into your tables (from the authoring you parse). Those rows are not part of your wixlib. CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow creates a reference to a row that needs to be supplied from elsewhere, usually the wixlib supplied by the extension. If the WixExtension supplies the wixlib, you don't need to supply it. Also, if the WixExtension supplies the table definitions (via the tables.xml-style file), you don't need to duplicate the table definitions in your wixlib (using CustomTable elements). Also, make sure that your extension is supplied to both candle and light in your build script. I would guess that you are missing the tables.xml-style reference in your WixExtension (which I suspect is the source of your missing error), and that you are supplying the wixlib used in your extension directly to your setup project (which I suspect is the source of your duplicate symbol). From: john.ludlow...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:25:38 +0100 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Duplicate symbol when using CompilerCore.CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow Hi, My installer has two projects - a Setup Project which emits an .MSI and contains install metadata, and a Setup Library Project which emits a .wixlib which contains install components. The latter makes use of a compiler extension which generates an MSI table based on some child elements of the File element. In other words, it looks like this: File myext:MyFunkyExtension/ /File (attributes omitted for brevity) The extension consists of three projects: a C# class library for the actual extension, a C++ Custom Action Library for the custom actions that will use the data in the table, and a wixlib to hold the custom action definition. The CA DLL is bound into the wixlib, and the wixlib is included in the extension dll project as an embedded resource. Now here comes the issue... When I reference the extension DLL from just the wixlib which has the components in, I get this error: Error 1 Cannot find the table definitions for the 'MyTable' table. This is likely due to a typing error or missing extension. Please ensure all the necessary extensions are supplied on the command line with the -ext parameter. light.exe 0 1 MyInstall I wondered if the setup project needed the reference as well, but when I add that I get this: Error 1 Duplicate symbol 'CustomAction:MyCA' found. This typically means that an Id is duplicated. Check to make sure all your identifiers of a given type (File, Component, Feature) are unique. MyComponentSetupLibrary.wixlib 0 1 MyInstall I reckon this is down to this code at the end of the ParseElement methjod in the extension: Core.CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow(ln, CustomAction, MyCA); I did this on the suggestion of the Wix 3.6 Development Guide (Chapter 14) in order to create a reference to the action in order to pull the fragment into the installation. I also noticed that my ParseElement method seems to get called twice. Is this because I have 2 references from my projects (one from my setup project and one from my setup library project)? This is odd - I thought you could reference things as many times as you liked in this manner, and if it was already there then it would just ignore it. Any hints would be greatly appreciated. Thanks John -- See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Duplicate symbol when using CompilerCore.CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow
Hi Blair, Ok, does that mean I've encountered an error in the book, then? The book suggests adding the wixlib to the extension, and I've done that (means I should only have to reference the extension, not the wixlib, right?). However, the sample code in the book does not come with a test install which shows how to reference it, nor is this discussed in the book in any detail. I was going to create one but have not had the time yet, so I'm not sure if the code in the book works or not. (Wouldn't be the first time I've come across sample code in a book that doesn't compile). I got that the extension needs to be supplied to both (though, honestly, it's a bit annoying having to propagate the references). That's obviously why the first error appeared. It made sense that this was because I was referencing it twice, but I figured the book was probably correct and I was missing something (and I didn't want to just remove the line so it worked temporarily). It would probably be a good improvement to have this behave like I described above - you can only declare something once, but you can create as many references as you like to it, even if those references are technically duplicates of each other. In the meantime, I'll remove that line. Thanks PS: I'm still planning to write this up as a tutorial, but I just want to get stuff like this sorted first On 10 July 2013 14:46, Blair Murri os...@live.com wrote: A WixExtension used in the way you describe usually supplies three things: a CompilerExtension (to parse your new elements and attributes), a Table definition (comes from a tables.xml-style file with the definitions of the tables unique to your extension), and a binary-wixlib (containing your CAs and related authoring). Usually your CompilerExtension will supply two things: references to items in your wixlib, and rows into your tables (from the authoring you parse). Those rows are not part of your wixlib. CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow creates a reference to a row that needs to be supplied from elsewhere, usually the wixlib supplied by the extension. If the WixExtension supplies the wixlib, you don't need to supply it. Also, if the WixExtension supplies the table definitions (via the tables.xml-style file), you don't need to duplicate the table definitions in your wixlib (using CustomTable elements). Also, make sure that your extension is supplied to both candle and light in your build script. I would guess that you are missing the tables.xml-style reference in your WixExtension (which I suspect is the source of your missing error), and that you are supplying the wixlib used in your extension directly to your setup project (which I suspect is the source of your duplicate symbol). From: john.ludlow...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:25:38 +0100 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Duplicate symbol when using CompilerCore.CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow Hi, My installer has two projects - a Setup Project which emits an .MSI and contains install metadata, and a Setup Library Project which emits a .wixlib which contains install components. The latter makes use of a compiler extension which generates an MSI table based on some child elements of the File element. In other words, it looks like this: File myext:MyFunkyExtension/ /File (attributes omitted for brevity) The extension consists of three projects: a C# class library for the actual extension, a C++ Custom Action Library for the custom actions that will use the data in the table, and a wixlib to hold the custom action definition. The CA DLL is bound into the wixlib, and the wixlib is included in the extension dll project as an embedded resource. Now here comes the issue... When I reference the extension DLL from just the wixlib which has the components in, I get this error: Error 1 Cannot find the table definitions for the 'MyTable' table. This is likely due to a typing error or missing extension. Please ensure all the necessary extensions are supplied on the command line with the -ext parameter. light.exe 0 1 MyInstall I wondered if the setup project needed the reference as well, but when I add that I get this: Error 1 Duplicate symbol 'CustomAction:MyCA' found. This typically means that an Id is duplicated. Check to make sure all your identifiers of a given type (File, Component, Feature) are unique. MyComponentSetupLibrary.wixlib 0 1 MyInstall I reckon this is down to this code at the end of the ParseElement methjod in the extension: Core.CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow(ln, CustomAction, MyCA); I did this on the suggestion of the Wix 3.6 Development Guide (Chapter 14) in order to create a reference to the action in order to pull the fragment into the installation. I also noticed that my ParseElement method seems to get called twice. Is this because I have 2 references from my projects (one
Re: [WiX-users] Duplicate symbol when using CompilerCore.CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow
John,
Yes, you put the wixlib only into the extension, and that allows you to have
your setup project only reference the extension and not the wixlib directly.
The setup project references the extension in a similar fashion to the
toolset-supplied extensions, except that the path (including the .dll at the
end of the filename) need to be supplied (done for you by Votive).
I haven't looked that the example in the book (yet).
You supply the table definitions by overriding the TableDefinitions property
similar to this:
private TableDefinitionCollection tableDefinitions;
public override TableDefinitionCollection TableDefinitions
{
get
{
if (null == this.tableDefinitions)
{
this.tableDefinitions =
LoadTableDefinitionsHelper(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(),
assembly-resource-prefix.tables.xml);
}
return this.tableDefinitions;
}
}
(looks very similar to the code used to supply the wixlib -- the GetLibrary()
override you had to use to have the extension supply your wixlib)
You place the tables.xml file into your managed resources a similar way as you
do your wixlib.
The tables.xml file uses the tableDefinitions schema
(http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/tables), the xsd of which is only in the
sources (src\wix\Xsd\tables.xsd). Only supply attributes that are not required
if you need to override the default value. The TablesYesNoType type defaults to
no, and most of the attributes come from MSDN and end up in the table
validation
metadata.
Blair
From: john.ludlow...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:20:56 +0100
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Duplicate symbol when using
CompilerCore.CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow
Hi Blair,
Ok, does that mean I've encountered an error in the book, then? The book
suggests adding the wixlib to the extension, and I've done that (means I
should only have to reference the extension, not the wixlib, right?).
However, the sample code in the book does not come with a test install
which shows how to reference it, nor is this discussed in the book in any
detail. I was going to create one but have not had the time yet, so I'm not
sure if the code in the book works or not. (Wouldn't be the first time I've
come across sample code in a book that doesn't compile).
I got that the extension needs to be supplied to both (though, honestly,
it's a bit annoying having to propagate the references). That's obviously
why the first error appeared.
It made sense that this was because I was referencing it twice, but I
figured the book was probably correct and I was missing something (and I
didn't want to just remove the line so it worked temporarily). It would
probably be a good improvement to have this behave like I described above -
you can only declare something once, but you can create as many references
as you like to it, even if those references are technically duplicates of
each other.
In the meantime, I'll remove that line.
Thanks
PS: I'm still planning to write this up as a tutorial, but I just want to
get stuff like this sorted first
On 10 July 2013 14:46, Blair Murri os...@live.com wrote:
A WixExtension used in the way you describe usually supplies three things:
a CompilerExtension (to parse your new elements and attributes), a Table
definition (comes from a tables.xml-style file with the definitions of the
tables unique to your extension), and a binary-wixlib (containing your CAs
and related authoring).
Usually your CompilerExtension will supply two things: references to items
in your wixlib, and rows into your tables (from the authoring you parse).
Those rows are not part of your wixlib.
CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow creates a reference to a row that needs to be
supplied from elsewhere, usually the wixlib supplied by the extension.
If the WixExtension supplies the wixlib, you don't need to supply it.
Also, if the WixExtension supplies the table definitions (via the
tables.xml-style file), you don't need to duplicate the table definitions
in your wixlib (using CustomTable elements).
Also, make sure that your extension is supplied to both candle and light
in your build script.
I would guess that you are missing the tables.xml-style reference in your
WixExtension (which I suspect is the source of your missing error), and
that you are supplying the wixlib used in your extension directly to your
setup project (which I suspect is the source of your duplicate symbol).
From: john.ludlow...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:25:38 +0100
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Duplicate symbol when using
CompilerCore.CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow
Hi,
My installer has two projects - a Setup Project which emits an .MSI and
contains install metadata, and a Setup Library Project which emits a
.wixlib which contains install components
Re: [WiX-users] Duplicate symbol when using CompilerCore.CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow
Blair,
Yes I have the tables.xml correctly referenced as described above. The
error has disappeared. If this pattern is idiomatic for this type of
extension, I'm happy.
My points above were
* The only widely available documentation for this appears to have an
error
* It would have been better if WiX had not thrown this error and instead
simply thrown the second reference away (I can't see any way this might be
dangerous, since a reference is just a reference).
If I'm missing anything with either of those points, please let me know.
If I have any further questions, I'll be back in touch :)
Thanks for your help
John
On 10 July 2013 15:51, Blair Murri os...@live.com wrote:
John,
Yes, you put the wixlib only into the extension, and that allows you to
have your setup project only reference the extension and not the wixlib
directly.
The setup project references the extension in a similar fashion to the
toolset-supplied extensions, except that the path (including the .dll at
the end of the filename) need to be supplied (done for you by Votive).
I haven't looked that the example in the book (yet).
You supply the table definitions by overriding the TableDefinitions
property similar to this:
private TableDefinitionCollection tableDefinitions;
public override TableDefinitionCollection TableDefinitions
{
get
{
if (null == this.tableDefinitions)
{
this.tableDefinitions =
LoadTableDefinitionsHelper(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(),
assembly-resource-prefix.tables.xml);
}
return this.tableDefinitions;
}
}
(looks very similar to the code used to supply the wixlib -- the
GetLibrary() override you had to use to have the extension supply your
wixlib)
You place the tables.xml file into your managed resources a similar way as
you do your wixlib.
The tables.xml file uses the tableDefinitions schema (
http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/tables), the xsd of which is only
in the sources (src\wix\Xsd\tables.xsd). Only supply attributes that are
not required if you need to override the default value. The TablesYesNoType
type defaults to no, and most of the attributes come from MSDN and end up
in the table validation
metadata.
Blair
From: john.ludlow...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:20:56 +0100
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Duplicate symbol when using
CompilerCore.CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow
Hi Blair,
Ok, does that mean I've encountered an error in the book, then? The book
suggests adding the wixlib to the extension, and I've done that (means I
should only have to reference the extension, not the wixlib, right?).
However, the sample code in the book does not come with a test install
which shows how to reference it, nor is this discussed in the book in any
detail. I was going to create one but have not had the time yet, so I'm
not
sure if the code in the book works or not. (Wouldn't be the first time
I've
come across sample code in a book that doesn't compile).
I got that the extension needs to be supplied to both (though, honestly,
it's a bit annoying having to propagate the references). That's obviously
why the first error appeared.
It made sense that this was because I was referencing it twice, but I
figured the book was probably correct and I was missing something (and I
didn't want to just remove the line so it worked temporarily). It would
probably be a good improvement to have this behave like I described
above -
you can only declare something once, but you can create as many
references
as you like to it, even if those references are technically duplicates of
each other.
In the meantime, I'll remove that line.
Thanks
PS: I'm still planning to write this up as a tutorial, but I just want to
get stuff like this sorted first
On 10 July 2013 14:46, Blair Murri os...@live.com wrote:
A WixExtension used in the way you describe usually supplies three
things:
a CompilerExtension (to parse your new elements and attributes), a
Table
definition (comes from a tables.xml-style file with the definitions of
the
tables unique to your extension), and a binary-wixlib (containing your
CAs
and related authoring).
Usually your CompilerExtension will supply two things: references to
items
in your wixlib, and rows into your tables (from the authoring you
parse).
Those rows are not part of your wixlib.
CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow creates a reference to a row that needs to
be
supplied from elsewhere, usually the wixlib supplied by the extension.
If the WixExtension supplies the wixlib, you don't need to supply it.
Also, if the WixExtension supplies the table definitions (via the
tables.xml-style file), you don't need to duplicate the table
definitions
in your wixlib (using CustomTable elements).
Also, make sure that your extension is supplied
Re: [WiX-users] Duplicate symbol when using CompilerCore.CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow
You should be able to download the example for that chapter at the Packt publishers (packtpub.com) site. On the page that shows the details about the book, click the tab that says Support and there ought to be a Code Downloads link. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Duplicate-symbol-when-using-CompilerCore-CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow-tp7587243p7587260.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Duplicate symbol when using CompilerCore.CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow
Yup, did that - that's how I know there's no test installer for it. When I removed that line, the install compiled but without the action. I'll add a test install to the sample, and see what I get. I just haven't had time to do that today, unfortunately. On 10 July 2013 17:47, Nick Ramirez nickra...@hotmail.com wrote: You should be able to download the example for that chapter at the Packt publishers (packtpub.com) site. On the page that shows the details about the book, click the tab that says Support and there ought to be a Code Downloads link. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Duplicate-symbol-when-using-CompilerCore-CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow-tp7587243p7587260.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Duplicate symbol when using CompilerCore.CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow
Okay, I maybe wasn't fully understanding the problem. :) So, you're saying that you want to use your extension in another WIXLIB (unrelated to the WIXLIB you used to build your extension)...but when you try that, but don't reference the extension in your Setup project too, you get the error Cannot find the table definitions for As far as I can tell, you need to have the project reference for the extension in both the WIXLIB and the Setup project. To make your WIXLIB work, i.e. to pull the contents of the WIXLIB into your MSI (this may be the part you're missing?), you need to put a Property in the WIXLIB and then use a PropertyRef that points to that Property in your Setup file. This creates the link between the library and the MSI, pulling in all of the contents (your components, your new extension elements, etc.) that are in the library's Fragment into the MSI. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Duplicate-symbol-when-using-CompilerCore-CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow-tp7587243p7587281.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Duplicate symbol when using CompilerCore.CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow
There are several ways to make the *Ref. One way is to author a *Ref/ element. Another is to use CompilerCore.CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow(). Either works the same as the other. The original error appears to be due to missing code in the extension. The second error (caused by trying to workaround that first error) appears to be caused by making an explicit reference to the wixlib that the extension contains along with the extension (causing double references). Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 13:57:00 -0700 From: nickra...@hotmail.com To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Duplicate symbol when using CompilerCore.CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow Okay, I maybe wasn't fully understanding the problem. :) So, you're saying that you want to use your extension in another WIXLIB (unrelated to the WIXLIB you used to build your extension)...but when you try that, but don't reference the extension in your Setup project too, you get the error Cannot find the table definitions for As far as I can tell, you need to have the project reference for the extension in both the WIXLIB and the Setup project. To make your WIXLIB work, i.e. to pull the contents of the WIXLIB into your MSI (this may be the part you're missing?), you need to put a Property in the WIXLIB and then use a PropertyRef that points to that Property in your Setup file. This creates the link between the library and the MSI, pulling in all of the contents (your components, your new extension elements, etc.) that are in the library's Fragment into the MSI. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Duplicate-symbol-when-using-CompilerCore-CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow-tp7587243p7587281.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
