Thanks for the comments. I think I am on the trail of the basic problem. I have been doing the 'debug' build with the following command (IIRC I got this from and example posted to this list long ago), except that I added the /p:DebugSymbols=true /p:DebugType=full /p:Optimize=false yesterday in my experiments. (Before building the wix.proj the first time I did OneTimeWixBuildInitialication.proj) .
call "%_msbuild%" %~dp0\wix3\Wix.proj /p:PlatformToolset=v120_xp /p:DebugSymbols=true /p:DebugType=full /p:Optimize=false /v:diag /l:FileLogger,Microsoft.Build.Engine;logfile="%~dp0\wix3.log" So I launched this build a few minutes ago and when I sort the output folder ..\build\debug\x86 it is clear that wixca.dll and many other files have todays date and time from the build just completed, BUT WixUtilExtension.dll is several days old, even though I have made changes to rmutil.cpp and called the above build of the wix.proj. I have verified, as suggested, that when my msi project is built in the VS IDE, that light.exe is linking to WixUtilExtension.dll in this build path (and not to the RTM also installed on this system). But since the compile of wix.proj does not update WixUtilExtension.dll this seems to be the problem that needs a solution. Back to experimenting. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Debug-delopment-story-tp7597968p7598138.html Sent from the wix-devs mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-devs mailing list WiX-devs@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-devs
