In my experience changing to use msbuild from nant isn't as easy as it seems.
When it is all working there isn't a problem but seeing errors reported
correctly especially in my integration tool of choice (ccnet) is particularly
hard (I had to resort to parsing the output file). This also assumes that your
projects are edited using a VS wixproj - this isn't always the case.
Now a plea to the WiX team - please don't drop nant support in favour of
msbuild.
Neil
Neil Sleightholm
X2 Systems Limited
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________________________________
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Neil Enns
Sent: Tue 22/07/2008 23:00
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Build Fails with NAnt. The format of the file
'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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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Latendresse
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:36 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
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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