Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild

2014-08-12 Thread Tony
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Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild

2014-08-11 Thread Tony
A >> Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® >> Shawnee Mission, KS 66227 >> Office: 913-341-3434 x791011 >> jocoo...@jackhenry.com >> www.jackhenry.com >> >> >> >> -Original Message----- >> From: Tony [mailto:yellowjacketl...@gmail.com] >

Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild

2014-06-26 Thread Phill Hogland
I concur with John's post. I make sure all projects can be built using scripts that call MSBuild and VS. I avoid using VS events (PostBuild) in favour of BeforeBuild and AfterBuild nearly every project. There are other helpful MSBuild targets which can be reviewed by enabling a verbose build lo

Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild

2014-06-26 Thread John Cooper
riginal Message- From: Tony [mailto:yellowjacketl...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2014 11:51 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild Interesting, I wonder if BeforeBuild has the same (apparent, yet to be confirmed)

Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild

2014-06-26 Thread Tony
.® > Shawnee Mission, KS 66227 > Office: 913-341-3434 x791011 > jocoo...@jackhenry.com > www.jackhenry.com > > > > -Original Message- > From: Tony [mailto:yellowjacketl...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2014 9:32 AM > To: General discussion about the W

Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild

2014-06-26 Thread John Cooper
sion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild I know this conversation is a bit old, but I figured out the real issue. And it is worth sharing in case others run into a similar problem. It appeared as though we had a build order issue with our wix proj

Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild

2014-06-26 Thread Tony
I know this conversation is a bit old, but I figured out the real issue. And it is worth sharing in case others run into a similar problem. It appeared as though we had a build order issue with our wix projects as described elsewhere in this thread (works in VS, but fails with MSBuild). I "fixed"

Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild

2014-06-04 Thread Tom Brezinski
From: Tony [mailto:yellowjacketl...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 1:01 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild Follow-up Our old VS2012 solution was organized like this... A.vsxproj (C++) B.csproj (C#) C.csproj (C#) W.wi

Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild

2014-06-04 Thread Tony
Follow-up Our old VS2012 solution was organized like this... A.vsxproj (C++) B.csproj (C#) C.csproj (C#) W.wixproj (WiX) Where project-B had a SOLUTION dependency on the C++ project-A. And the WiX project has project dependencies on both project-B and project-C. When built via VS2012, the

Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild

2014-05-30 Thread Michael Urman
m > www.jackhenry.com > > > > -Original Message- > From: Tony [mailto:yellowjacketl...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 7:20 AM > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild > > Rob i

Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild

2014-05-30 Thread Tony
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 11:54 AM > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild > > Sort of like msi logs > > > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:20 AM, John Cooper > wrote: > > > Yes, but it's

Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild

2014-05-29 Thread Rob Mensching
://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Message- From: Tony [mailto:yellowjacketl...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 11:54 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild Sort of like msi logs On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9

Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild

2014-05-29 Thread Tony
discussion about the WiX toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild > > Rob it could be that issue though we have very, very few solution > dependencies (the primary reason for this as described in the linked blog > entry). I just checked we have 2

Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild

2014-05-29 Thread John Cooper
jackhenry.com -Original Message- From: Tony [mailto:yellowjacketl...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 7:20 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild Rob it could be that issue though we have very, very few solution

Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild

2014-05-29 Thread Tony
Rob it could be that issue though we have very, very few solution dependencies (the primary reason for this as described in the linked blog entry). I just checked we have 2 solution based dependencies out of ~280 projects (1 to link a C++ project to a C# consumer and 1 to link 4 C# projects to a s

Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild

2014-05-28 Thread Rob Mensching
Sounds a lot like: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msbuild/archive/2010/12/21/incorrect-solution-build-ordering-when-using-msbuild-exe.aspx ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Me

Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild

2014-05-28 Thread John Cooper
With the proviso that WiX is installed on all of my build servers: 1) I use express references to projects containing assemblies that the wixproj will consume in the wixproj 2) I use Votive macros to layout the paths to all of my assemblies. I never attempt to guess where the assembly will be