Well, I've made progress, I think. So it appears that for whatever reason I'm not able to build some of the src\ext build files with NANT.
Going specifically into the BalExtension and UtilExtension folders, and running MSBUILD from their subfolders in a specific order, I was able to get the builds to succeed. Then I was able to run my modified candle.exe from the build\debug\x86 folder. I still get an error about the ExitCode element I added, but this looks like progress. This is the order I manually MSBUILD'ed the projects in to get it to work: UtilExtension\wixlib UtilExtension\wixext BalExtension\balutil BalExtension\wixstdba BalExtension\wixlib BalExtension\wixext -----Original Message----- From: Dan Puza [mailto:dp...@ultra-scan.com] Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 9:53 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Building and running WiX - Public Key Some additional background information: I've copied and pasted the candle.exe command line arguments from Visual Studio's build output of my Burn Bootstrapper project, and tried replacing the references to my Program Files folder with references to WIX_ROOT\build\ship\x86 directory instead. There are references to two WiX extensions, WixUtilExtension.dll and WixBalExtension.dll. I don't find either of them in my output directory. So when I run the modified command line to candle.exe I get the error Could not find wix\build\ship\x86\WixUtilExtension.dll. What is the candle.exe -d"DevEnvDir=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\\" argument for? Will that Program Files reference contribute to my PublicKey problems? I have also been replacing wix.xsd in Visual Studio 10.0\Xml\Schemas with my modified one. -----Original Message----- From: Dan Puza [mailto:dp...@ultra-scan.com] Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 9:35 AM To: WiX-users Subject: [WiX-users] Building and running WiX - Public Key I've attempted to fix a bug mentioned by Rob about ExitCode in Burn (actually candle) as it's pretty urgent for me to have that working for my project. I thought I may be able to just copy over the modified candle.exe and wix.dll into my Program Files (x86)\Windows Installer XML v3.6 directory. But of course, I am getting an exception, not able to load wix.dll with PublicKey=blahblahblah. File not found. Of course, my modified wix.dll has a null public key. I've made several attempts to work around this, but all unsuccessful. So... what is the recommended way of running a built version of WiX? Could anyone offer any suggestions to get me on the fast track? Can you think of any "quick and dirty" shortcuts I could take to just get my modified candle.exe running? My only change was to add a few items to wix.xsd. I built with "make ship". It doesn't compile completely. I get 8 non-fatal errors and 3 warnings, but I don't even have Visual Studio 2005 installed, so I'm guessing that could be the 2005 Votive components? I do have Visual Studio SDK for 2010, and should also have HTML Help SDK. I do also see an error from "make ship" about can't find "wix\build\ship\x86\Dependency.wixlib". Any help or ideas would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
