Build system is (unfortunately) a mash up of NAnt and MSBuild projects.
Building in VS isn't really supported (sometimes it works, most of the time
it doesn't). You can build everything by running make.bat in the root.
One of the first things we do in WiX v4.0 is standardize on MSBuild 4.0.
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Dandre Jansen van Vuuren <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Neil
>
> Thanks so much for your reply. I did as you instructed and it actually
> worked!
> Just one more question though, how do you guys develop on the source code?
> I openend it up and all I see is Red words everywere (Resharper) where it
> can't find symbols, etc. It even doesn't locate the System.Xml assemblies in
> that solution. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Regards,
> Dandre
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Neil Sleightholm <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Take a look at the section on code signing here
>> http://neilsleightholm.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-create-wix-build-machine.htmlI
>> think that may be the issue. Basically if you build the source it will
>> only work on the build machine unless you follow these steps (this was true
>> for v3.5 and I don't think it has changed for 3.5).
>>
>> Neil
>>
>> Neil Sleightholm
>> [email protected]
>>
>> On 5 Nov 2010, at 06:26, "Dandre Jansen van Vuuren" <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all
>> >
>> > I have been playing around with the Wix source code a bit and I finally
>> got the thing to build a shipping version of Wix 3.5.
>> > I installed with the installer that was generated on my Windows 7 32-bit
>> laptop and was able to work with the changes made in Visual Studio 2010. But
>> when I installed this on my desktop 64-bit Windows 7 machine (with Visual
>> Studio 2010) I got project loading errors pointing to the Votive 2010 DLL
>> that couldn't be loaded.
>> > Any ideas what it could be? I recon that its built to be x86 and not Any
>> CPU or something like that.
>> > Did I have to do something special in the build process?
>> >
>> > Here is what I did to build:
>> > Opened command prompt in Admin mode
>> > Run the wixenv.bat file
>> > Ran: make ship
>> >
>> > Took installer that was found in: wix_source\build\x86\release
>> >
>> > Any help will be appreciated thanks
>> >
>> > -Dandre
>> >
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