1. For these types of problems it just takes digging into the specific error message. I've been extremely disappointed with the complexity of creating Visual Studio Packages (like our Votive), especially stuff that tries to work on VS2005 and VS2008. We have tons of software on the build machine since it is also configured to build WiX v2 and that had support for VS2003. The only upside is that you know two places are correctly building so there must be something in the configuration somewhere (some other software installed) gumming up the works. I'd love to spend more time investigating but I personally just don't have cycles to spend sorting out the difference between the official WiX build machine and yours...
2. WiX v2 is already officially released. WiX v3 is targeting official release before the end of the year (August'ish). We are targeting that date because we are delivering it to VS2010 and that's when they said they wanted the last build. However, we've already started the process of trimming the amount of change that goes into WiX v3. MSI5.0 support was (I think) the last big issue to tackle. We already have a 100 fewer bugs open against v3 than we shipped in v2. WiX v3 is really quite stable (delta the new MSI5.0 stuff) and I expect that in a couple months we will just be sitting around looking for that "big bad bug that just can't ship" (which hopefully doesn't exist and we'll be rock solid for 6 months). -----Original Message----- From: Oliver Wickham [mailto:oliver.wick...@skinkers.com] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 10:51 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Votive Fails to compile Thanks for coming back to me so quickly. Can you point me the direction of somebody who is able to illuminate some of the darker places in WIX? Also, can you describe your build environment? Maybe that would help me understand what I have different to you. BTW, I love the idea of WIX. Can you please give me an approximate timeline for an official release, and is it true that it is going to be integrated in VS2010? That would meet our requirements perfectly! Olly -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com] Sent: 19 January 2009 18:36 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Votive Fails to compile The latest WiX toolset was just built on Saturday. Your deep in Votive and MSBuild territory. Neither place I'm strong. It is also some of the more dark and twisty places. -----Original Message----- From: Oliver Wickham [mailto:oliver.wick...@skinkers.com] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 10:26 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Votive Fails to compile Hi All, I wonder if anybody has the solution to an issue I have whilst compiling WIX? I have followed Neil Sleightholm's blog entry on creating a Wix build machine, which is a pretty good article. Therefore I *should* have all the prerequisites in place to build WIX, however, my build is still failing whilst compiling Votive. The log reveals: [exec] Target VsTemplatePathsTarget: [exec] C:\code\sharedlibs\upstream\Wix\cvs\wix\src\votive\SDK_VS2008\Tools\Buil d\Microsoft.VsSDK.targets(348,5): error MSB4062: The "VsTemplatePaths" task could not be loaded from the assembly C:\code\sharedlibs\upstream\Wix\cvs\wix\src\votive\SDK_VS2008\Tools\Buil d\Microsoft.VsSDK.Build.Tasks.dll. Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VsSDK.Build.Tasks, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. Access is denied. Confirm that the <UsingTask> declaration is correct, and that the assembly and all its dependencies are available. [exec] Done building target "VsTemplatePathsTarget" in project "Votive2005.csproj" -- FAILED. [exec] [exec] Done building project "Votive2005.csproj" -- FAILED. [exec] [exec] Build FAILED. [exec] c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Microsoft.Common.targets : warning MSB3247: Found conflicts between different versions of the same dependent assembly. [exec] c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Microsoft.Common.targets : warning MSB3088: Could not read state file "C:\code\sharedlibs\upstream\Wix\cvs\wix\build\obj\debug\x86\Wix\Wix.csp roj.GenerateResource.Cache". Unable to cast object of type 'Microsoft.Build.Tasks.ResGenDependencies' to type 'Microsoft.Build.Tasks.StateFileBase'. [exec] c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Microsoft.Common.targets : warning MSB3247: Found conflicts between different versions of the same dependent assembly. [exec] C:\code\sharedlibs\upstream\Wix\cvs\wix\src\votive\SDK_VS2008\Tools\Buil d\Microsoft.VsSDK.targets(348,5): error MSB4062: The "VsTemplatePaths" task could not be loaded from the assembly C:\code\sharedlibs\upstream\Wix\cvs\wix\src\votive\SDK_VS2008\Tools\Buil d\Microsoft.VsSDK.Build.Tasks.dll. Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VsSDK.Build.Tasks, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. Access is denied. Confirm that the <UsingTask> declaration is correct, and that the assembly and all its dependencies are available. [exec] 3 Warning(s) [exec] 1 Error(s) Does anybody have a clue as to what could be causing this error? I see that a post was made on the mailing list mid-last year by somebody else, with a similar error, but there was no response. I am hoping for better luck this time! At least can somebody please confirm that the CVS head for WIX compiles at the moment? 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