1. If you build WiX once, you should be able to build projects normally.
I'm curious what specific issues you are hitting.
BTW, I should have remembered this previously. The burn.sln should work
just fine in VS. I knew there was one project in the WiX toolset build that
worked in VS... it's Burn because that was the last project added when the
new build system was mostly planned.
2. I'm working through a couple VS2012 build failures in wix38 last
night. Found some changes in wix40 that are not back ported, yet. (I did
things backwards and have to retrace my steps quite a bit) <sigh/>
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Neil Sleightholm <n...@x2systems.com>wrote:
> Mainly because you cannot open them in Visual Studio and even after I
> have built the source once you cannot even just build the local project
> file – well that is what I am finding.****
>
> ** **
>
> For reference this using WiX 3.7 as the 3.8 build seems to be broken
> (defect raised). I am also finding that the 3.7 build is failing very late
> in the process and am investigating why (this may be affecting what I am
> doing with the gaming extension).****
>
> ** **
>
> Neil****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com]
> *Sent:* 19 February 2013 14:08
>
> *To:* Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list
> *Subject:* Re: [WiX-devs] Building WiX Code****
>
> ** **
>
> Okay, cool. Why is that better than being able to use the project files in
> the WiX build the same way? (assuming we fix any instances of issue #2 I
> listed previously)****
>
> ** **
>
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Neil Sleightholm <n...@x2systems.com>
> wrote:****
>
> I can document it more fully but basically I created new default
> project files for wixproj, vcxproj and csproj and then put the files in
> them. The C++ was the hardest as I needed to copy across all the build
> settings. Once you have standard project files building is easy and the
> settings can all be overridden from an external build process rather than
> in the project file.****
>
> ****
>
> Neil****
>
> ****
>
> *From:* Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com]
> *Sent:* 18 February 2013 23:09****
>
>
> *To:* Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list****
>
> *Subject:* Re: [WiX-devs] Building WiX Code****
>
> ****
>
> Okay, that's getting to the crux of the issue. What is missing or what did
> you add to make you so much faster outside of the WiX build process that
> made it worthwhile to do that work?****
>
> ****
>
> From my point of view, you should be able to get the same exact wins
> inside the WiX toolset without having to do the work to extract the code
> out of the WiX build process and create a new one.****
>
> ****
>
> What was different outside of the WiX toolset?****
>
> ****
>
> PS: if someone wants to go about getting the extension build to use the
> built files they'd be available in the SDK, that seems reasonable to me as
> long as it makes it easier to build the extensions, not harder. <smile/>**
> **
>
> ****
>
> ****
>
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Neil Sleightholm <n...@x2systems.com>
> wrote:****
>
> I appreciate this wouldn’t be trivial to arrange but I believe the
> benefits would be worth it. I base this on the speed at which I have been
> able to develop the extended BA, spending time breaking it out of the WiX
> build has made it so much easier to work on.****
>
> ****
>
> Neil****
>
>
>
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