Is anybody else experiencing an error when including multiple files within an MSI component or can anyone else replicate this error?
My intention here is not to be pushy -- I just want to understand the status of this feature b/c I'm approaching a deadline. If I can't get my installer to work using NAnt, I need a little time to develop a Plan B.
Thanks for all of your help. I really appreciate all of the thoughtful feedback on this forum. I'm truly impressed with NAnt. Everytime my colleagues and I brainstorm how to improve our build process, NAnt invariably has a Task to implement exactly what we collectively resolved to do.
Regards,
Ted
At 01:57 PM 7/29/2004, Gert Driesen wrote:
Ted,
Can you run the build in verbose mod (NAnt.exe -verbose ....) and send us the output ?
Thanks,
Gert
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Quinby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 3:37 PM 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> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop > FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! > Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Nant-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users >
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