I have been able to resolve this issue by downloading the NAnt and
NAntContrib nightly builds from 1/30/09.
(and also by downloading the Cabinet SDK, which I originally did not
have).
Thanks to Gert for his help.
Beth
[NAnt-users] msi task - 'cabarc' failed to start
Beth Hechanova
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:28:35 -0800
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 <http://nant.sourceforge.net>
Buildfile:
file:///C:/content/ContentTrunk/ContentManagementTool/src/ContentManagem
entTool.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.
build(176,4):
Unable to build Installer database
'C:/BuildArea/ContentManagementTool/Distribute/ContentManagementTool.msi
'.
C:\content\ContentTrunk\ContentManagementTool\src\ContentManagementTool.
build(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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