Sounds like you need to pass the desired output path to msbuild from nant.
You can use the /property command line argument to msbuild.exe to pass
property values from NAnt into MSBUILD.
We use the a NAnt exec task that looks something like the following:
<exec
program="${framework::get-framework-directory(framework::get-target-framewor
k())}\msbuild.exe" resultproperty="msbuild.result" failonerror="false">
<arg value="${product.sln}"/>
<arg value="/nologo"/>
<arg value="/noconsolelogger"/>
<arg value="/target:Build"/>
<arg
value="/property:SolutionDir=${project::get-base-directory()}\\"/>
<arg value="/logger:Kobush.Build.Logging.XmlLogger,${
XmlLogger4MSBuild.directory}\bin\Release\Kobush.Build.dll;${compile.log.xml}
"/>
</exec>
You could just add another argument to the list of args
<arg value="/property:CustomOutputPath=your output path"/>
<arg value="/property:CustomOutputName=your output file name"/>
You will then have to update your wixproj file to use these property values
to populate OutputPath and OutputName as appropriate.
Hope that helps,
Gavin :)
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric
Latendresse
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 2:50 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Build Fails with NAnt. The format of thefile
'NAntTasks.dll' is invalid.
Great, that worked. I was able to build my installer using my NAnt build
file. However. I need to specify an output path every time the .msi gets
built. Right now the output path is what is set in the protect
properties. The reason I need to separate the build versions is that
ultimately I need to look at the different versions to create patches.
Can you recommend a way to do this with the msbuild command?
Eric Latendresse
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Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 5:01 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Build Fails with NAnt. The format of thefile
'NAntTasks.dll' is invalid.
One option to consider is using the shipping MSBuild .targets file that
has a complete build process for WiX in conjunction with NAnt. Trying to
re-construct a build process using individual tasks is often fraught
with peril, and using the one that ships with WiX is almost always a
better idea.
You would create a .wixproj that uses the MSBuild process for building
WiX (a quick way to do this is to create a WiX project in Visual
Studio), and then in your nant build script just do <msbuild
project="myinstaller.wixproj">. You'll get our well-tested and supported
build process for free, yet still be able to use nant as your overall
build driver.
Neil
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric
Latendresse
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:36 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [WiX-users] Build Fails with NAnt. The format of the file
'NAntTasks.dll' is invalid.
I am using NAnt to build my WiX project. Here is the code:
<target name="CreateSetupPackageUsingWiX" description="Create the
installer package using WiX Script">
<mkdir dir="${wix.release.dir}"/>
<loadtasks
assembly="${wix.work.dir}/Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.NAntTasks.
dll"/>
<candle out="${wix.work.dir}\" cultures="en-us"
extensions="WixUtilExtension;WixWixSqlExtension;WixUIExtension"
exedir="${wix.dir}\" rebuild="true">
<sources>
<include name="SuiteSetup.wxs" />
</sources>
</candle>
<light out="${wix.release.dir}/SuiteSetup.msi" cultures="en-us"
extensions="WixUtilExtension;WixWixSqlExtension;WixUIExtension"
exedir="${wix.dir}\" rebuild="true">
<sources>
<include name="SuiteSetup.wixobj" />
</sources>
</light>
</target>
Here is the error I am getting:
BUILD FAILED - 1 non-fatal error(s), 0 warning(s)
D:\Development\SuiteBuild_Development\BuildProcess.build(209,4):
Failure scanning \"C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Installer XML
v3\bin\Microsoft.
Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.NAntTasks.dll\" for extensions.
The format of the file
'Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.NAntTasks.dll' is invalid.
Total time: 0.1 seconds.
Eric
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