Hi,
I use Votive (WiX 3.5) with VS 2008. I have added two projects in the
solution. One is a WiX project and another one is a library project
which implements a CustomAction. WiX project references the library:
<ItemGroup>
<ProjectReference
Include="..\InstallDataBase\InstallDataBase.csproj">
<Name>InstallDataBase</Name>
<Project>{e67df855-60e0-4abf-abf7-46ecea4f64a1}</Project>
<Private>True</Private>
<DoNotHarvest>True</DoNotHarvest>
<RefProjectOutputGroups>Binaries;Content;Satellites</RefProjectOutputGro
ups>
<RefTargetDir>INSTALLLOCATION</RefTargetDir>
</ProjectReference>
</ItemGroup>
And I use the following:
<Binary Id="DBScriptAction"
SourceFile="$(var.InstallDataBase.TargetDir)$(var.InstallDataBase.Target
Name).CA.dll" />
to call the custom action from the WiX project. It works ok when I build
the WiX project in Visual Studio.
But it doesn't work when I build it using MSBuild task. In my build
definition I use the following:
<MSBuild Projects="@(WixProject)" Condition="'$(CreateSetup)'=='true'"
Properties
="MsiInstallVersion=$(Major).$(Minor).$(Build).$(Revision);AutoBuild=Tru
e"/>
I'm getting this error when using MSBuild:
Product.wxs(361): error CNDL0150: Undefined preprocessor variable
'$(var.InstallDataBase.TargetDir)'.
I checked the build outputs from both VS and MSBuild and the difference
is that when building in MSBuild the candle.exe doesn't have the
properties for the library project (for instance
-dLibraryProjectName.ProjectDir, etc.).
It looks to me that when building wixproj from MSBuild task candle do
not provide the properties for the referenced project.
Thanks,
--
Ruslan Albu
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