Beth,
Do you have the Cabinet SDK installed? Can you launch cabarc.exe from the
command prompt?
Gert
From: Beth Hechanova [mailto:bhechan...@imsco-us.com]
Sent: woensdag 28 januari 2009 19:30
To: nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [NAnt-users] msi task - 'cabarc' failed to start
Hi,
I saw a thread with the same subject approx a year ago in the mail archive,
but I did not see any resolution. I am having the same exact problem. At
the end of this email is the output from running the msi task from my nant
script. I have not done anything with setting a path (either env variable
or within the nant script itself).
At this time, my msi task is very simple - I only have "sourcedir" defined
as the directory that contains the files to put into the installer, and
"output" defined to be the name of the msi installer.
My application is a VS2008 solution built on .net 3.5 framework.
Did the person with this same problem ever get it figured out? Are people
able to successfully use the msi task with nant? If so, did you have to do
some special configuration to get it to work?
Thanks,
Beth
Build Error :
C:\content\ContentTrunk\ContentManagementTool\src>nant Distribute
NAnt 0.86 (Build 0.86.2898.0; beta1; 12/8/2007)
Copyright (C) 2001-2007 Gerry Shaw
http://nant.sourceforge.net
Buildfile:
file:///C:/content/ContentTrunk/ContentManagementTool/src/ContentManagementT
ool.build
Target framework: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
Target(s) specified: Distribute
Distribute:
[msi] Building Installer Database
'C:/BuildArea/ContentManagementTool/Distribute/ContentManagementTool.msi'.
[msi] Compressing Files...
[exec] Starting 'cabarc (-r N
C:/BUILDA~1/CONTEN~1/Publish/\ContentManagementTool.cab *)' in 'C:\Documents
and Settings\user\Temp\tmpC2C.tmp'
BUILD FAILED
C:\content\ContentTrunk\ContentManagementTool\src\ContentManagementTool.buil
d(176,4):
Unable to build Installer database
'C:/BuildArea/ContentManagementTool/Distribute/ContentManagementTool.msi'.
C:\content\ContentTrunk\ContentManagementTool\src\ContentManagementTool.buil
d(176,4):
Error creating cab file.
'cabarc' failed to start.
The system cannot find the file specified
Total time: 1 seconds.
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