Please open a bug with details if you can. I have seen issues around GetCabList as well.
Brian Rogers "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me http://blogs.msdn.com/icumove On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:38 AM, Benjamin Podszun < benjamin.pods...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > > I upgraded my machine from Win XP to Windows 7 last weekend. My > previously working WiX project fails now with this (rather obvious at > first) error: > > Error 77 The "GetLooseFileList" task failed unexpectedly. > System.ArgumentException: Illegal characters in path. > at System.IO.Path.CheckInvalidPathChars(String path) > at System.IO.Path.Combine(String path1, String path2) > at > Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Build.Tasks.GetLooseFileList.Execute() > at > Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.TaskEngine.ExecuteInstantiatedTask(EngineProxy > engineProxy, ItemBucket bucket, TaskExecutionMode howToExecuteTask, > ITask task, Boolean& taskResult) > > File: C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\WiX\v3.5\Wix.targets > Line: 1979 > Column: 6 > > Okay - the error seems to be easy to locate, except that > - the sources are exactly the same > - the file locations are exactly the same as far as I can tell > > Any idea how I can track this down? I shot myself in the foot with > this one, because on Monday I was ordered to create a new (and > unplanned for) release and desperately need to build this project. > Thinking about recreating an XP environment because I'm totally lost > here - but any insights, hints, suggestions would be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > Ben > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, > Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW > http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
