RE: [Nant-users] msi, components, and subdirs

Ted Quinby Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:38:20 -0700

Thanks for the response. I guess I neglected to mention that I am using the nightly build of NAntContrib. A related process question here. I downloaded the xsd you pointed me to and copied it to my nantcontrib src directory (wherever the other version of the older xsd was), rebuilt nantcontrib, and then saved the output to the nant bin directory I'm using. Should this effectively incorporate the changes made to the xsd into my version of nant/nantcontrib? It didn't generate any errors with the keepsubdirs attribute included within the msi task of my app build file -- nor did the keepsubdirs seem to help in my case so I took it out.

My build file is over 1300 lines of code so I'd rather not include the whole thing here.

I put together an excerpt of my msi task that generates the same problem:

The output from executing this is as follows:

NAnt 0.85 (Build 0.85.1670.0; net-1.1.win32; nightly; 7/28/2004)
Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Gerry Shaw
http://nant.sourceforge.net

Buildfile: file:///c:/earthit/users/quinby/SIS_build_0.85/Master.build
Target(s) specified: installtest


installtest:


install:

[msi] Building MSI Database 'C:\earthit\users\quinby\SIS_build_0.85\install_test\sis-install-0.0.0.9.msi'. [msi] Adding Properties: [msi] ProductName [msi] ProductVersion [msi] Manufacturer [msi] ProductCode [msi] ALLUSERS [msi] Adding Directories: [msi] SIS [msi] SIS\config [msi] SIS\addins [msi] SIS [msi] Add Files: [msi] C:\earthit\users\quinby\SIS_build_0.85\install_test\SIS\Earthit.SIS.Properties.dll [msi] C:\earthit\users\quinby\SIS_build_0.85\install_test\SIS\SIS.exe [msi] C:\earthit\users\quinby\SIS_build_0.85\install_test\SIS\config\DataMgmt.gif

failure:


Build failed

c:\earthit\users\quinby\SIS_build_0.85\Master.build(837,6): Unable to build MSI database 'C:\earthit\users\quinby\SIS_build_0.85\install_test\sis-install-0.0.0.9.msi'. Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Total time: 1.3 seconds.

The config subdirectory has 7 files (bmp, gif, and xml) and DataMgmt.gif just happens to be the first one alphabetically.

Once again, thanks in advance for your input. It's probably a pretty simple issue.

Ted

At 10:14 AM 7/29/2004, James Geurts wrote:

Hi Ted,

Sorry, I should have mentioned that the xsd file that I pointed you to was
the most recent version, thus only valid for a nightly build of NAntContrib.
Also, the keepsubdirs attribute was just recently added, so it would only be
valid in a very recent nightly build of NAntContrib.

Is there any way you could provide the build script that you are using?
Also, could you provide the entire output w/ error?

Thanks

Jim

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Subject: [Nant-users] msi, components, and subdirs

My installation has the following directory hierarchy/structure:

<Main_Install_Folder>
        <Subdir />
        <Subdir />
        <Subdir />
                <Sub_SubDir />>
        <Subdir />
</Main_Install_Folder>

All files in all components saved to the Main_Install_Folder are added to
the MSI without a problem.

When the msi task hits one of the subdirectory components (with multiple
files to be included), only the first file is added, followed by this error:

Unable to build MSI database
'C:\earthit\users\quinby\SIS_build_0.85\install_test\sis-install-0.0.0.9.msi
'.
     Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

If I comment out the offending subdir, the next subdir exhibits the same
behavior.

I was previously directed by Jim to look at the MSITask.xsd schema at the
following link:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/nantcontrib/NAntContrib/src/Tasks/Msi/
MsiTask.xsd?rev=1.7&view=auto

At the top of the page is mention of the keepsubdirs attribute -- I've
incorporated this xsd into my implementation of nant and played around with
this attribute but am still getting this error.  Am I on the right track
here?

Excerpts of my components are as follows:

<component name="C_Main" id="{0E2DE7A7-6F89-4a99-9368-807676F920E4}"
attr="2" directory="MAINFOLDER" feature="DefaultFeature" keepsubdirs="true">
           <key file="SIS.exe" />
           <fileset basedir="${build.dir}">
                  <include name="SIS.exe" />
           </fileset>
</component>
<component name="C_Resources" id="{A2BDA996-8440-49E7-A4F7-3AB254C98D2B}"
attr="2" directory="SUBFOLDER" feature="DefaultFeature">
        <key file="crops.txt" />
           <fileset basedir="${build.dir}\resources">
                <include name="crops.txt" />
                <include name="divervehicles.txt" />
           </fileset>
</component>

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