> On Sep 13, 2023, at 2:27 PM, Michael Hall <mik3h...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>> On Sep 13, 2023, at 2:21 PM, Alexey Semenyuk <alexey.semen...@oracle.com>
>> wrote:
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>> jpoackage requires at least Wix v3.0. If it doesn't recognize Wix4, it is a
>> bug.
>>
>> - Alexey
>>
>> On 9/12/2023 6:50 PM, Michael Hall wrote:
>>> Curiosity. I was setting up a new Windows 10 VirtualBox image to do
>>> jpackage. It told me I needed Wix. First I needed dotnet to install wix. I
>>> then got a Wix v4. jpackage told me I needed candle.exe and light.exe from
>>> v3. I installed v3 but haven’t had a chance to try it.
>>>
>>> However, if v4 isn’t backward compatible with v3 how will jpackage continue
>>> to work with this? Or did I miss something in my v4 install?
>>
>
> Wix 4 looks pretty different was my concern. The dotnet install put into my
> user directory in a .dotnet directory. .dotnet\tool\wix or something pretty
> close to that. I had to add that to path. There didn’t appear to be any
> accompanying candle or light exe’s that jpackage seemed to expect. Assuming
> you are going to sometime have to support Wix v4 it might be worth looking
> at.
Again, possibly there is some other, more complete, way to get Wix v4 that I
missed that would be compatible with jpackage going forward. I’m not
remembering exactly what led my do getting v4. Possibly it’s not even GA yet?
