Once it is MSBuild based it should completely build (at least once) from within
VS (I have noticed that if the build code in one project uses a binary built in
another project, the binary isn’t released until the IDE is closed, so you get
a build error during the second build. The command-line msbuild doesn’t suffer
the same problem, since it shuts down at the end of the build).
WiX uses itself to finish building itself.
From: Dandre [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 2:58 PM
To: Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Building Wix 3.5 source
Man that would take a while I guess. Would you then be able to compile from VS?
Or would you still need to go cmd line to build everything?
-Dandre
On 05 Nov 2010, at 22:51, Rob Mensching <[email protected]> wrote:
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.html
I 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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