I installed WIX (version 3.5), my first install of any version of WIX last week. I'm also on XP and using VS 2010. I too immediately hit that error.
The answer comes from 'Working with Dll's 101' :-) 1) Locate the dll on your machine, mine was in C:\Program Files\Windows Installer XML v3.5\bin 2) Go to the PATH environment variable of the machine (Control Panel, System, Advanced, Environment Variables, Select the System Variable called Path) 3) Add the path of the dll onto the end of the current values in the Path variable and save. (i.e. [existing stuff];C:\Program Files\Windows Installer XML v3.5\bin) After that its able to locate the dll when needed. Of course that would need to be updated if the name of the install directory for WIX changes but for now this will get you past the problem. Warren Nicolas Laurent <daffycric...@yahoo.fr> 08/19/2010 05:35 AM Please respond to "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> To wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net cc Subject [WiX-users] Problem with VS 2010 and winterop.dll Hi All,I've started using WIX (version 3.5) a couple of days ago. I encounter the following problem using VS 2010. I create a wix project in my solution. Whenever i try to build it, i get the following error message : light.exe : error LGHT0001: Unable to load DLL 'winterop.dll': The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)Note that I don't have this problem if I compile a wxs file (with candle.exe) then link it (with light) manually in a command prompt. I found just a few posts on the indicating it's related to 64-bits architectures (http://www.mail-archive.com/wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg37516.html for instance). But my system is a WinXP 32 bits, so I can't get to figure what the problem is... Has anyone already encountered then solved this problem ? Many thanks in advance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
