[WiX-users] Building WIX on build machine issues...

Hi folks, I have a Build VM where I have installed VS2012 but have NOT installed WIX 3.9 I have rebuilt WIX 3.9 with some changes to the bootstrapper (I added some pre requisite checks that our product requires) (If I install WIX 3.9 and replace the binaries built and is good, but we do not want

[WiX-users] Building WiX Bootstrapper Application with TFS Build

Hello, I've created two WiX setups as well as a Bootstrapper that contains both .msi files inside its Chain. Now I want to build both setups and the BA with TFS Build. The build itself is successful, I've already moved the WiX sources to TFS and changed the WiX paths to a relative location

Re: [WiX-users] Building Wix 3.6

On 19/03/2013 12:31, Bruce Cran wrote: > Clone https://hg.codeplex.com/wix : > > hg clone https://hg.codeplex.com/wix -b wix38 Sorry ignore most of that - those instructions are for WiX 3.8 not 3.6. To get 3.6 you just need to use "-b wix36" when cloning and follow the instructions in the docum

Re: [WiX-users] Building Wix 3.6

On 13/03/2013 20:13, jeamis wrote: > So how do I enlist to the Mercurial repository? All I want to do is > compile burn. I want to confirm our static analysis and debugging. > > Any direction is appreciated. Clone https://hg.codeplex.com/wix : hg clone https://hg.codeplex.com/wix -b wix38 To

Re: [WiX-users] Building Wix 3.6

Thanks Rob, So how do I enlist to the Mercurial repository? All I want to do is compile burn. I want to confirm our static analysis and debugging. Any direction is appreciated. -Jon - - jon -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com

Re: [WiX-users] Building Wix 3.6

You need to enlist in the Mercurial repository to build. The sources.zip is availble for debugging purposes (along with the pdbs.zip) it is not buildable. To build wix36, you use make.bat. It requires lots of stuff installed on your machine to build correctly. On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:07 AM, j

[WiX-users] Building Wix 3.6

Ok, I see that on http://wix.codeplex.com/releases/view/93929 there is a zip file that contains source. What is needed to build the wix 3.6 toolkit? Can I build it using DevStudio 2010? Is the source complete? I tried to open the wix.sln (which my machine says it is 2010 sln file, but it wa

Re: [WiX-users] building Wix

Rob, * [property] Target framework changed to "Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0". - NOT SOLVED * [property] Read-only property "dir.hhw" cannot be overwritten. - SOLVED - by removing "read-only=true" from source code * [property] Read-only property "hhw-found" cannot be overwritten. - SOLVED - by

Re: [WiX-users] building Wix

The WiX v3.6 buid is (unfortunately) wired to build from the beginning and all the way through. You do have to have the whole environment (lots of stuff to install) to get there. On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 6:58 AM, jaczjill wrote: > I am facing same issue i.e. need to build wixstdba.vcxproj project.

Re: [WiX-users] building Wix

I am facing same issue i.e. need to build wixstdba.vcxproj project. If any one got its solution then please let me know the solution. - jaczjill -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/building-Wix-tp7474266p7580340.html Sent from the w

[WiX-users] Building WiX from source

As we now have a 3.6 RC0, I wanted to take another stab at burn. When I attempt to build on a clean machine (Win 7 x64) with just VS2010, the 6.1 and 7.1 SDK, and NAnt I keep getting errors like: [exec] Microsoft (R) Build Engine Version 3.5.30729.5420 [exec] [Microsoft .NET Fram

Re: [WiX-users] building Wix

xstdba was enough for me. Hope this helps. Neil -Original Message- From: jean claude klodjan [mailto:jcklod...@gmail.com] Sent: 17 April 2012 18:27 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] building Wix hello i'm having problem building wix : i have installed a

[WiX-users] building Wix

hello i'm having problem building wix : i have installed all the required prerequisites (or at their equivalent for Visual 2010) i basically just would like to build wixstdba, (it requires the balutil.lib ) - building any project in ext.sln (or in the wix solution) shows The "XsdGen" task was n

Re: [WiX-users] Building wix from visual studio 2008 using HeatDirectory/HeatTask

Thanks for the answer Brian. Yes, its very basic and ugly for some of our apps. I am working on that as well. What would be ideal is if you could just specify the .sln file and then heat "automagically" fetched all the structure plus reference dlls. That would be the dream..Perhaps version 4.0 o

Re: [WiX-users] Building wix from visual studio 2008 using HeatDirectory/HeatTask

Hey Brian, Am I understanding you correctly when you say you have dependency .dlls listed in the project itself? If that is the case you could create a separate call to heat.exe to get those files as individuals. Unfortunately the only other way I know how to do this would be to use the -pog:Sourc

Re: [WiX-users] Building wix from visual studio 2008 using HeatDirectory/HeatTask

OK, Brian I am back again with a new question. Been Digging around the wix code. :) Now I have tried out Project harvester and the problem is I cannot get in all the dll's included with the project. Basically we have multiple projects in the solution. So I tried to use the "Satellites" ProjectOu

Re: [WiX-users] Building wix from visual studio 2008 using HeatDirectory/HeatTask

Thanks Brian I am using the latest drop of wix. Brian, no I didn't know about the project harvester. That is basically what I am trying to do. Is there any info on how to use it anywhere? On Apr 20, 2009 5:38 PM, "Brian Rogers" wrote: Hey Brian, Which version of heat.exe are you using? Is it

Re: [WiX-users] Building wix from visual studio 2008 using HeatDirectory/HeatTask

Hey Brian, Which version of heat.exe are you using? Is it this weeks drop? Second, if you could show more or your source wixproj that would be great. Also, the PreprocessorVariable takes only "var.MyVar" not "$(var.MyVar). Do you know about the VSProject harvestor extension? This might work for w

Re: [WiX-users] Building wix from visual studio 2008 using HeatDirectory/HeatTask

Hello Brian, thanks for your response below. It solved just about everything for me. Now I have a problem with the heat output: based on your heat examples here: http://icumove.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!FB93073C6534B681!461.entry But I am not quite sure how to define this variable in the wix pro

Re: [WiX-users] Building wix from visual studio 2008 using HeatDirectory/HeatTask

Hey Brian, Try the below. Debug msbuild.heatfile Package *Pass via the command line* en-us ..\..\data\HeatDir Thanks, Brian Rogers "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me http://icumove.spaces.live.com On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:39

[WiX-users] Building wix from visual studio 2008 using HeatDirectory/HeatTask

Hello all (I posted this to the wrong list on friday(wix-users-request)) Rob pointed out to me that there was a way to use heattasks: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/710687/best-way-to-create-a-wix-fragment-file-based-on-user-defined-directories-to-be-us,but I have not been able to get heattask

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX project using MSBuild on Windows 2003 x64 server

Thank you, it's working! Bob Arnson-6 wrote: > > Dmitry Ponomarenko wrote: >> I am not sure how I can specify this property in the project file - there >> is >> no such option over UI. >> >> Could you please provide me with an example for the project file with >> setting the property? >> >

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX project using MSBuild on Windows 2003 x64 server

Dmitry Ponomarenko wrote: > I am not sure how I can specify this property in the project file - there is > no such option over UI. > > Could you please provide me with an example for the project file with > setting the property? > You'll have to do it in a text editor since it's not exposed in

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX project using MSBuild on Windows 2003 x64 server

Hello Bob, I am not sure how I can specify this property in the project file - there is no such option over UI. Could you please provide me with an example for the project file with setting the property? Thanks, Dmitry Bob Arnson-6 wrote: > > Dmitry Ponomarenko wrote: >> I am in trouble with

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX project using MSBuild on Windows 2003 x64 server

Dmitry Ponomarenko wrote: > I am in trouble with building my WiX solution using NAnt and MSBuild task on > a server which is running under Windows 2003 x64. > NAnt will run as a 64-bit process on an x64 machine; for compatibility, the WiX tools are marked as x86 and NAnt won't be able to load

[WiX-users] Building WiX project using MSBuild on Windows 2003 x64 server

Hello All, I am in trouble with building my WiX solution using NAnt and MSBuild task on a server which is running under Windows 2003 x64. NAnt task is simple: The WiX solution contains 3 wixproj; each of them has ..\..\Lib\WiX\v3.0\ $(WixR

Re: [WiX-users] Building Wix for ja-JP

Vidya Kukke wrote: > One last thing, I was wondering how come if it has not been localized in > japanese I get warnings only for a few strings? Is it that these are new and > have been introduced only in 3.0 but the rest of the strings were in 2.0 and > are available for use as-is in 3.0? >

Re: [WiX-users] Building Wix for ja-JP

t: 16 January 2009 19:20 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Building Wix for ja-JP :-). One last thing, I was wondering how come if it has not been localized in japanese I get warnings only for a few strings? Is it that these are new and have

Re: [WiX-users] Building Wix for ja-JP

clarify this? Regards, Vidya -Original Message- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 9:04 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Building Wix for ja-JP Vidya Kukke wrote: > Is there any plan to do it?

Re: [WiX-users] Building Wix for ja-JP

Vidya Kukke wrote: > Is there any plan to do it? The WiX team, while experts in many, many things, is amateur at best at more than a handful of foreign languages. We rely on experts to donate that expertise and so far, nobody has done so. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ---

Re: [WiX-users] Building Wix for ja-JP

009 23:34 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Building Wix for ja-JP Hi, I am using Wix v3 (3.0.4805). I have a requirement to build ja-JP version of our installer. However when I change the culture to build to ja-JP (via VS 2008 project settings) I am getting the following

Re: [WiX-users] Building Wix for ja-JP

Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Building Wix for ja-JP It does not appear that anyone has provided localization for those messages, yet. -Original Message- From: Vidya Kukke [mailto:vku...@windows.microsoft.com] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 15:35 To: wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] Building Wix for ja-JP

It does not appear that anyone has provided localization for those messages, yet. -Original Message- From: Vidya Kukke [mailto:vku...@windows.microsoft.com] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 15:35 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Building Wix for ja-JP Hi, I am

[WiX-users] Building Wix for ja-JP

Hi, I am using Wix v3 (3.0.4805). I have a requirement to build ja-JP version of our installer. However when I change the culture to build to ja-JP (via VS 2008 project settings) I am getting the following errors:- C:\delivery\Dev\wix30\src\ext\UtilExtension\wixlib\UtilExtension.wxs(207,0): er

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX

> It sounds like you know a bit about CVS, do you know if it is > possible to view what has change since you last did a > checkout in CVS or TortoiseCVS? I can see how to do it on a > file by file basis but not the whole folder. Neil, On the commandline, you can do 'cvs -n update', which shows yo

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX

Systems Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: John Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 24/10/2008 10:00 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX > You are of course corr

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX

> You are of course correct but I am such a total convert to > SVN that everything in CVS looks so antiquated. I use CVS > tags in another project but have never have the enthusiasm to > understand the command line, in SVN I do everything via the > TortiseSVN interface and I assumed TortiseCVS woul

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX from CVS

If it messes up the build yes. -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 22:33 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX from CVS Should I raise that as a bug? -Original

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX from CVS

Should I raise that as a bug? -Original Message- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 October 2008 01:37 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX from CVS Neil Sleightholm wrote: > Following on from my other post

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX from CVS

Neil Sleightholm wrote: > Following on from my other posts I thought I'd try and build WIX from > CVS, the first problem I encountered is that the "test" folder does > export from CVS. These are the command lines I am using: > I don't think it exists in CVS. It's not visible from http://wix.cv

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX

same but it isn't. Neil -Original Message- From: Braden McDaniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 October 2008 19:46 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX Neil Sleightholm wrote: > 2. I wouldn't bother in CVS they a

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX

Neil Sleightholm wrote: > 2. I wouldn't bother in CVS they are as good as useless. The tools I > have seem to only show labels on files and not the whole project and I > have never found a way of doing a get by label - even VSS can do that! If by "labels" you mean "tags", then they aren't useless

[WiX-users] Building WiX from CVS

Following on from my other posts I thought I'd try and build WIX from CVS, the first problem I encountered is that the "test" folder does export from CVS. These are the command lines I am using: cvs.exe -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/wix login cvs.exe -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsr

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX

Sent: 23 October 2008 19:06 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX 2. That's a good point. There are no labels in CVS. I'll think about it in the future. It'd be a good feature to have. 4. If the source control is wo

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX

ount to hit. -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:54 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX 1. I'll give the CVS branch a go and see how I get on. 2. My point was

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX

: 23 October 2008 18:42 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX 1. This was my fault in the past, and things are better now (or so I've heard ). 2. CVS should be better than sources.zip. If not, it'd be good to know what's b

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX

ve to SVN eventually... there are just other things that *don't* work that take priority. -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:17 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Building Wi

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX

8 17:29 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX The instructions should say, "Sync files from CVS". The source.zip is just provided for quick look up during debugging on a machine that you might not have CVS source on. If you&#x

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX

al Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 03:48 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX I will raise bugs for the instructions. Do you also want them for missing files? I have seen posts me

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX

TED]> From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 22/10/2008 23:40 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX Can we get the appropriate details added to the help file? Detailed bugs would be fan

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX

Can we get the appropriate details added to the help file? Detailed bugs would be fantastic. -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 15:08 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users

[WiX-users] Building WiX

If anyone is interested in building WiX from the source I have written a blog that details the bits that aren't in the help file: http://neilsleightholm.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-create-wix-build-mach ine.html. Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX v3

Thanks bob. -Original Message- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 September 2008 06:36 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX v3 Sean Farrow wrote: > Wherecan I get the required version of nant? I carn't

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX v3

Sean Farrow wrote: > Wherecan I get the required version of nant? I carn't find it on the > nant sourceforge page. > http://nant.sourceforge.net/nightly/ -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ - This SF.Net email is spons

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX v3

Hi: Wherecan I get the required version of nant? I carn't find it on the nant sourceforge page. Cheers Sean. -Original Message- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 September 2008 22:58 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX v3

Sean Farrow wrote: > I am looking at buildingWiX v3, I'm currently working on some internal > extensions and I'd like to understand the build process. To build WiX, > do I need the .net framework 1.1? or just 2.0/3.0/3.5. > You don't need .NET 1.1; you do need 3.5 and either VS2008 or the Wind

[WiX-users] Building WiX v3

Hi: I am looking at buildingWiX v3, I'm currently working on some internal extensions and I'd like to understand the build process. To build WiX, do I need the .net framework 1.1? or just 2.0/3.0/3.5. Any help apreciated. Sean. --

Re: [WiX-users] building wix

Bob Arnson wrote: > Christopher Painter wrote: >> Yes, I would volunteer for such an effort. I know I've been told to >> `put up or shut up` before but I never helped out because I'm not the >> strongest C# application developer. However in the build / release >> role I'm very comfortable and

Re: [WiX-users] building wix

Luke Bakken wrote: > It would be a smaller effort to get the current build to be > "bulletproof" for someone doing a CVS checkout. I've already done this > to some degree as I have a local vendor branch of WiX to which I've > applied several important patches for our installers (the patches have >

Re: [WiX-users] building wix

Christopher Painter wrote: > Yes, I would volunteer for such an effort. I know I've been told to > `put up or shut up` before but I never helped out because I'm not the > strongest C# application developer. However in the build / release > role I'm very comfortable and I feel that it's somethi

Re: [WiX-users] building wix

On Feb 12, 2008 1:21 PM, Bob Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher Painter wrote: > > Oh come on... I'm sure a company as big as MSFT can come up with a > > little bit of hosting space for open space projects. > > I'm sure. But it's weeks/months of effort so we can make building from > so

Re: [WiX-users] building wix

Yes, I would volunteer for such an effort. I know I've been told to `put up or shut up` before but I never helped out because I'm not the strongest C# application developer. However in the build / release role I'm very comfortable and I feel that it's something I could do to help the cause.

Re: [WiX-users] building wix

I have a hard time believing it would take months to complete. I make a living ripping apart and refactoring .NET solutions that were stored in other SCC/WIT systems and checking them into TFS proper. A project the size of WiX wouldn't take me more then a few days to migrate. I'd als

Re: [WiX-users] building wix

Christopher Painter wrote: > Oh come on... I'm sure a company as big as MSFT can come up with a > little bit of hosting space for open space projects. I'm sure. But it's weeks/months of effort so we can make building from source .zips easier? Bad ROI. Codeplex still doesn't have mailing lists,

Re: [WiX-users] building wix

Oh come on... I'm sure a company as big as MSFT can come up with a little bit of hosting space for open space projects. Just go to the CodePlex group and say `We are the poster child for Microsoft Open Source and we are using SourceForge instead of CodePlex because they have feature xyz

Re: [WiX-users] building wix

Christopher Painter wrote: > Why not just go to CodePlex?The TFS/MSBuild model kills the > CVS/NAnt model, IMHO. I know you guys said you had some issues > building unmanaged code but surely it can't be that bad. That would "solve" the problem of limited web space by eliminating it entirel

Re: [WiX-users] building wix

Why not just go to CodePlex?The TFS/MSBuild model kills the CVS/NAnt model, IMHO. I know you guys said you had some issues building unmanaged code but surely it can't be that bad. Bob Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Frédéric Viollet wrote: > -I tried from a CVS checkout, I got the fo

Re: [WiX-users] building wix

Frédéric Viollet wrote: > -I tried from a CVS checkout, I got the following error: > c:\temp\wix_cvs\wix.build(64,4): > Build file 'C:\temp\wix_cvs\tests\vstests\vstests.build' does not exist. Yeah, sorry, I just noticed this problem last weekend. You can comment out every include of .build files

Re: [WiX-users] building wix

Frédéric Viollet wrote: > > > -I finally found these files in the binary distribution. I tried from > the weekly release sources after copying the files above, I got the > following error: > 71 errors, all about missing references... because Nant.Core could not > be found. > > :) > Is there a

Re: [WiX-users] building wix

> > > Is it really not possible to include all files in the source > distribution so that building wix can be automated in a production > environment? *why* do you need to build WIX in a production environment? /Simon - This

Re: [WiX-users] building wix

Bob Arnson a écrit : Frédéric Viollet wrote: C:\temp\wix-3.0.2925.0-sources>make.bat ship Please try a weekly release from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/ or a CVS checkout. Hi Bob, Thanks again for replying. -I tried from a CVS checkout, I got the following error: c:\temp\wix_cvs

Re: [WiX-users] building wix

Frédéric Viollet wrote: > C:\temp\wix-3.0.2925.0-sources>make.bat ship > Please try a weekly release from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/ or a CVS checkout. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ - This SF.net email

[WiX-users] building wix

Hi everyone, I'm encoutering some problems while trying to build Wix v3 with nant I get the following error message: C:\temp\wix-3.0.2925.0-sources>make.bat ship NAnt 0.85 (Build 0.85.2478.0; release; 14/10/2006) Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Gerry Shaw http://nant.sourceforge.net Buildfile: file:///

Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX v3.0.3617

Thanks for these notes. Moving to CLR v2.0 was an interesting struggle and I don't think we have all of our build dependencies worked out. The AssemblyInfo.cs is totally one of those files that I've messed up. I've been struggling with the freaking keys for a while (keeping the private "prot

[WiX-users] Building WiX v3.0.3617

I needed to create a custom WiX build (based on 3.0.3617.0) to fix twobugs (1591591 & 1653864) that were plaguing us. We have been using WiXfor over a year on our project and other than those two bugs we havebeen really happy with the project. I have worked with other open source project

[WiX-users] building wix (was RE: XmlFile - specification misimplementation)

To answer your question about building the WiX toolset.  You can’t do it by just downloading VS.  We designed the build process to work from freely available tools.  There was some early criticism of the WiX project being a way to force people to buy Visual Studio.   So, now you just need