I’ve been trying to track down why my Wix Project is being relinked every single time I do a build even though nothing’s changed.
Eventually, I’ve tracked it down to the MFC100 merge modules. I have wxs file in my project: MFCMerge.wxs that contains this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";> <?define MergeLoc="..\Merge Modules" ?> <Fragment> <EnsureTable Id="Verb"/> <EnsureTable Id="ProgId"/> <EnsureTable Id="MIME"/> <EnsureTable Id="Extension"/> <EnsureTable Id="Class"/> <EnsureTable Id="TypeLib"/> <DirectoryRef Id="INSTALLLOCATION"> <Merge Id="atl" DiskId="1" SourceFile="$(var.MergeLoc)\Microsoft_VC100_ATL_x86.msm" Language="0"/> <Merge Id="crt" DiskId="1" SourceFile="$(var.MergeLoc)\Microsoft_VC100_CRT_x86.msm" Language="0" /> <Merge Id="mfc" DiskId="1" SourceFile="$(var.MergeLoc)\Microsoft_VC100_MFC_x86.msm" Language="0" /> <Merge Id="mfcloc" DiskId="1" SourceFile="$(var.MergeLoc)\Microsoft_VC100_MFCLOC_x86.msm" Language="0" /> </DirectoryRef> <FeatureGroup Id="MFCDep" > <MergeRef Id="atl" /> <MergeRef Id="crt"/> <MergeRef Id="mfc"/> <MergeRef Id="mfcloc"/> </FeatureGroup> </Fragment> </Wix> I then have this in my main.wxs file: <Feature Id="MFCSupport" Level="1"> <FeatureGroupRef Id="MFCDep"/> </Feature> If I comment the above lines out in main.wxs I don’t see the rebuild every time, but if I do, I get a message in the build output mode with diagnostics switched on that says: 1> Building target "Link" completely. 1> Input file "C:\Users\Tony\AppData\Local\Temp\xy3bc3ot\MergeId.634601\F_CENTRAL_atl100_x86.AFA96EB4_FA9F_335C_A7CB_36079407553D" does not exist. The above file appears to be mentioned in C:\(...)\XXX.wixproj.BindContentsFileListen-US.txt Maybe this rebuild often works because the temp files are not cleaned up, but this now causes problems as for some reason, the above temp folder disappears immediately after the build. Is this a known problem? Anthony Wieser Wieser Software Ltd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
