Wow, 3.0.2925.0 is a year old. There are hundreds of bug fixes and changes since then. Hmm, there have been some fixes to preprocessor recently to correctly handle relative paths when include files included include files and something to fix <?ifdef?> (but I think that was a regression). After that, I'm really at a loss...
I know that there have been reports of issues in VS2005 but Jason has been fixing a lot of them. He's also not having much luck getting repros of some issues people have reported. Maybe if you can help work out the VS2005 issues in the latest WiX v3 builds then we can track down the preprocessor issue (assuming it still exists) at the same time? Also, for everyone's benefit, this is why I always encourage anyone who is going to adopt the "in progress WiX toolset" (WiX v3 in this case) to keep up to date (at least monthly). If you get too far behind and hit a bug then you can get trapped in a difficult position. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Palmer Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 06:21 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Preprocessor ifdef did odd thing I have a product that can be built two ways. I have two WiX installer projects in visual studio, sharing many of the same wxs files. One project defines a variable in the project settings to cause some of the .wxs files to compile differently, like this: ... <Component Id="someFiles" Guid="8909196A-8C89-497c-A850-868D7648F063" > <File Id="file1" Source="..\..\SharedFiles\File1.exe" KeyPath="yes" Name="File1.exe"> </File> <?ifdef IsVersionA ?> <File Id="File2" Source="..\..\SharedFiles\File2_A.txt" Name="File2.txt"/> <?else?> <File Id="File2" Source="..\..\SharedFiles\File2.txt" Name="File2.txt"/> <?endif?> <File Id="File3" Source="..\..\SharedFiles\File3.txt" Name="File3.txt"/> </Component> <Directory Id="ConfDir" Name="conf"> <Component Id="configFiles" Guid="936B3B83-AF5D-47ba-9985-3B4D22E6353B"> <?ifdef IsVersionA ?> <File Id="ConfigFile" Source="..\..\SharedFiles\conf\server-A.conf" Name="server.conf"/> <?else?> <File Id="ConfigFile" Source="..\..\SharedFiles\conf\server.conf" Name="server.conf"/> <?endif?> <File Id="otherConfig" Source="..\..\SharedFiles\etc\" Name="server-password.conf"/> </Component> </Directory> ... When my project built with "IsVersionA=true" defined in the project settings "File2.txt" in the msi was a copy of "File2_A.txt" but "server.conf" was a copy of "..\..\SharedFiles\conf\server.conf" NOT the expected "..\..\SharedFiles\conf\server-A.conf" When investigating I manually rebuilt only this project from the solution (after shuffling some lines around to make File Id="otherConfig" the key file of Component Id="configFiles") both files were correct. Note that there is another project in the solution that shares this same .wxs file and does not define the IsVersionA variable. I thought at the least that if for some reason the .wxs wasn't being recompiled properly between project builds when I built the solution (doing a "rebuild") that the results would be consistent within the single .wxs. They clearly were not - QA reported the file inconsistency. I double checked to confirm the problem by using orca to check the file sizes in the .msi. Then I double checked the preprocessor conditions in the .wxs source file. It was somewhat baffeling. I'm using an older build of WiX 3 (3.0.2925.0) because the recent builds don't work well with Visual Studio 2005. Of course we are noticing this now only a day or two away from when we need to release the production build... argh! Can anyone shed some light (hey that's almost a pun) on what might be going on and how I might deal with it in a reliable way. Getting inconsistent output from your build tools isn't a good thing. Thanks, Scott ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
