It is disabled for a reason, harvesting is not trivial (or "straight forward") and there are all sorts of pitfalls. Personally I would avoid it, in my experience I have never found automatic harvesting to be something results in stable installs. The current implementation in Votive is only able to harvest the main output and misses dependant assemblies.
I use "heat" as a good first pass to save me typing but after the initial pass I handcraft the component but YMMV. Neil -----Original Message----- From: Dandre [mailto:dandre...@gmail.com] Sent: 17 November 2011 16:06 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.6 Project Harvesting Ah I finally found it. It was disabled by default until it was sorted out in the code base. You can re-enable it in 2 ways: * Go to the wix targets files in 'C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\WiX\v3.x' and set the 'EnableProjectHarvesting' to true * Add <EnableProjectHarvesting>true</EnableProjectHarvesting> in your wix ms build project file Just bear in mind, its probably disabled for a reason so keep that in mind when you use it. On 11/16/2011 9:46 PM, Helge Kruse wrote: > Well, it should. Unfortunately it doesn't. There is neither > Product.Generate.wxs not _ProjectName.wxs what is usually generated. > I managed to uninstall version 3.6.2221.0 and could install version > 3.5.2519.0 > > Now the Votive plugin spawns Heat to harvest the application project's > output and generates the files mentioned above. > The project references harvesting is a long term wish from a lot of > users. But I don't know if this can be implemented in the next time. > > Helge > > > Am 14.11.2011 07:00, schrieb Dandre Jansen van Vuuren: >> Well Harvesting should be straight forward. You reference a project, open >> the properties window, and choose that Harvesting flag to be true. You also >> need to have the Directory ID to match up with the one you have in your >> Product.wxs file. That should be it. The current limitation with this >> harvester is that is doesn't harvest the project references. >> But I would like to know if in 3.6 they're planning to take that out or >> whether its just a bug that causes heat.exe not to be called at all. >> >> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Helge Kruse<helge.kr...@gmx.net> wrote: >> >> >>> I had the same exprience that harvesting is dropped in Votive/(WiX3.6). >>> I thogh there was a documentation for Votive that explicitly describes this >>> harvesting. Can you help me with a pointer to this documentation/tutorial? >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Dandre Jansen van Vuuren"<dandre...@gmail.com> >>> To:<wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >>> Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 1:51 PM >>> Subject: [WiX-users] WiX 3.6 Project Harvesting >>> >>> >>> >>>> Hi all >>>> >>>> Is the Project harvesting still working for WiX 3.6? I've tried it but >>>> heat.exe never gets called when I build a setup project that references >>>> >>> an >>> >>>> application project. >>>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure > contains a definitive record of customers, 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-novd2d > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, 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-novd2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, 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-novd2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
