I have a similar situation where I am building two different WIX burn chainers (long story, has to do with .Net versions). In any case I was running into similar issues with the paths. I ended up creating an environment variable for my Wix 3.6 binaries path and inserting that in my WIX files as necessary. I then just got the Wix 3.6 binaries and copied to a suitable directory. With Wix 3.7 I did a proper install so it set up its own environment variables. You could probably just do the Wix 3.7 binaries in the same fashion on your build machines if that was necessary (but I have to wonder why your build machines would not have it installed if it was a necessary part of the build).
I then created my own version of the Wix 3.6 target paths and import that where I want to reference Wix 3.6 specifically. With this I am able to have one msbuild script that builds all targets, plus the installers targeting both Wix 3.6 and Wix 3.7 as necessary. Andreas A. Mertens Founder, Software Consultant and Developer NVision Ideas, Inc. cell: 604-354-9332 email: andre...@nvisionideas.com ________________________________________ From: George Fleming [gef...@microsoft.com] Sent: March 22, 2013 11:42 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] <WixTargetPath> and relative paths With Wix 3.6.1922, I manually add the <WixToolPath>, <WixTargetsPath> and <WixTaskPath> to my .wixproj file. If I use absolute paths, there's never any problem. However, due to build servers not having Wix installed, I must use relative paths, and that's where I run into all kinds of problems, especially with <WixTargetPath>. If I use a relative path that enables it to find WixTasks.dll, it then seems to screw up my <WixExtension> later in the file, causing my extension DLL's to not be found. I think WIx 3.7 works better, but due to some incompatibilities, I am stuck with 3.6.1922 for now. Is there a work-around? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
