I believe if you build/test on the same machine it should be fine. If
you build wix and transfer the apps to a different machine to put
together an .msi, I think that's where you run into problems. See Bob
A's message that he just sent, explains it better than I, and I think
this might be what the problem is. I remember that the errors .NET
throws are not as verbose as they could be and it took a while to figure
it out.
-Matt
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From: Kevin Fischer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 5:15 PM
To: Matthew Janulewicz; Mellor, Timothy J.;
[email protected]
Subject: RE: [WiX-devs] Problems building latest v3 of Wix (darice
problem)
I'm trying to update/fix a custom action that's included in the
WixUtilExtension DLL. Once I've implemented/tested the fix I'll send it
for code review/integration into Wix.
So do I need this private key in order to do this? Or is there some
other way to modify the custom action in WixUtilExtension and test it in
my own MSI?
Kevin
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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:11:43 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[email protected]
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Problems building latest v3 of Wix (darice
problem)
Any particular reason you're trying to build it instead of using a
nightly build? Is there a pending bug you need to build a custom version
of Wix for? Or are you contributing fixes to the project?
I'm not a wix dev, nor do I play one on TV, but unless you're needing to
build it a lot long-term or have some other compelling reason, it's
really not worth the extensive set-up required to do a build. I did
notice that occasionally needed files fall out and back into the source
archives, but the run-time .msi installer is always pretty solid.
Note that Wix binaries (at least last year when I was trying to build it
due to a small bug we were running into, now fixed) are signed, or
strong-named, or whatever (I'm not too keen on the terminology) and if
you don't have their private key (which you don't) you won't be
successful in building and distributing your installers to outside
entities or other machines. Or at least that was my experience.
-Matt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin
Fischer
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 4:52 PM
To: Mellor, Timothy J.; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Problems building latest v3 of Wix (darice
problem)
Doing that got my farther.
My goal is to get WixUtilExtension.dll working.
I see that it got built, but when I tried to reference it from my MSI
(which is built in VS2005 with Votive) I get the error:
candle.exe(0,0): Error CNDL0144: The extension
'D:\WixV3\Release\debug\WixUtilExtension.dll' could not be loaded.
The only other interesting points are:
- I'm using build 3015
- My build still fails, but at the Votive section which I'm choosing not
to build. Perhaps I need to build Votive too?
Any help in getting this to work is appreciated.
Thanks,
Kevin
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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:05:53 -0600
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Problems building latest v3 of Wix (darice
problem)
I had to manually copy daruice.cub, mergemod.cub, & mergemod.dll to
src/light/bin on build 3001 to get the build to work. The zip step of
the build also wanted ProjectAggregator2.msi in the Release\debug (for a
debug build), but the wix msi is already created at this point.
I am very new to WiX and perhaps I too am missing something that a more
experienced user can explain.
Thanks,
Tim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin
Fischer
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 1:58 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [WiX-devs] Problems building latest v3 of Wix (darice problem)
I downloaded the latest release of WiX v3 and am running into build
errors. I have the specified version of Nant and Visual Studio 2005
installed.
I'm running the command:
make full debug
This gave an error about wix.targets not being found in Release\debug.
I found the file in src\WixTasks and copied it there. This "fixed" that
error.
If I run "make full debug" again, I now get the error:
Could not find file 'D:\WixV3\src\light\bin\darice.cub' to copy.
The verbose log leading up to that looks like:
dark:
light.inc:
[copy] Copying 1 file to 'D:\WixV3\Release\debug\light.exe.config'.
[copy] Copying 'D:\WixV3\src\light\app.config' to
'D:\WixV3\Release\debug\light.exe.config'.
BUILD FAILED - 1 non-fatal error(s), 1 warning(s)
D:\WixV3\src\light\light.build(58,6):
Could not find file 'D:\WixV3\src\light\bin\darice.cub' to copy.:
NAnt.Core.BuildException: D:\WixV3\src\light\light.build(58,6):
Could not find file 'D:\WixV3\src\light\bin\darice.cub' to copy.
Any ideas on how to fix this problem?
Thanks,
Kevin
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