Have you adding it to the Path environment on the machine? I'm not sure,
but I believe nant starts a new process to run cabarc, and this would
presumably get the default Path from the machine settings, not from your
current process, and so wouldn't include the value you have just set.
Just a thought.
Cheers,
Bill
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Subject: [NAnt-users] msi task - 'cabarc' failed to start
Hi all,
I'm new to NAnt and I'm trying to set up our project for automated builds
but am having no success. I'm currently trying to use the msi task to
build the msi for our project but it keeps failing with the following
message:
[msi] Compressing Files...
[exec] Starting 'cabarc (-r N
C:\code\PROJECT~3\trunk\builds\lat
est\Project.cab *)' in 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local
Settings\Temp\tm
p177B.tmp'
Failure:
BUILD FAILED
C:\code\Project-SVN\trunk\default.build(317,6):
Unable to build Installer database 'Deploy\Project.msi'.
C:\code\Project-SVN\trunk\default.build(317,6):
Error creating cab file.
'cabarc' failed to start.
The system cannot find the file specified
I've added cabarc and mergemodule to the path using the following code:
<!-- Retrieve the path to visual studio from the registry -->
<readregistry property="visualstudio.dir"
key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\InstallDir"
hive="LocalMachine" />
<echo>Visual Studio path: ${visualstudio.dir}</echo>
<property name="cabarc.dir" value="${string::replace(visualstudio.dir,
'IDE\', 'Tools\Bin\CabArc.exe')}"/>
<property name="mergemod.dir" value="C:\Program Files\Common
Files\Microsoft Shared\MSI Tools\mergemod.dll"/>
<setenv name="PATH" path ="${cabarc.dir};${mergemod.dir};%PATH%"/>
<echo>Path: ${environment::get-variable('PATH')}</echo>
The echo task shows the paths to cabarc and mergemod have been added to
the Path environment variable so it should be able to find them. A friend
suggested that maybe spaces in the path are causing the problem but I
don't know which path in particular they were referring to. From what I've
seen, the fix for that issue should be in the version of NAnt I'm using
(0.85) anyway though.
Does anyone have any other ideas??
FYI - it's a C# Winforms project using .NET 2.0. We want to be able to
remove visual studio from the build machine in the future but right now
I'm just trying to get a build that works. Any example build files would
be gratefully accepted! Most of the good examples I've seen have been for
Web projects :(
Thanks,
K.
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