Excellent! Thanks for your help.
Eric Latendresse -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gavin Bee Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:00 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Build Fails with NAnt. The formatofthefile 'NAntTasks.dll' is invalid. Eric, My apologies for leaving that part out. CustomOutputPath needs to be used to set the value of OutputPath. So your Debug and Release PropertyGroups end up looking like the following <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'Debug' "> <OutputPath>$(CustomOutputPath)</OutputPath> <IntermediateOutputPath>obj\Debug\</IntermediateOutputPath> <DefineConstants>Debug</DefineConstants> </PropertyGroup> <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'Release' "> <OutputPath>$(CustomOutputPath)</OutputPath> <IntermediateOutputPath>obj\Release\</IntermediateOutputPath> </PropertyGroup> Note that in the above your output path ends up being the same for debug and release. Gavin :) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Latendresse Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 5:02 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Build Fails with NAnt. The format ofthefile 'NAntTasks.dll' is invalid. Thanks Gavin, I think I'm very close. It still builds my .msi, but I can't get the CustomOutput argument to work. I haven't worked with msbuild project files before so I'm sure my code is wrong. Maybe you can easily see what I'm doing wrong. Nant Code: <exec program="${framework::get-framework-directory(framework::get-target-fram ework())}\msbuild.exe" resultproperty="msbuild.result" failonerror="true"> <arg value="${wix.work.dir}\SuiteSetup.wixproj"/> <arg value="/nologo"/> <arg value="/noconsolelogger"/> <arg value="/target:Build"/> <arg value="/property:SolutionDir=${project::get-base-directory()}\\"/> <arg value="/property:CustomOutputPath=${wix.release.dir}"/> <arg value="/property:CustomOutputName=${wix.release.dir}\Setup_${project.ver sion}.msi"/> </exec> Project File: <Project DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003";> <PropertyGroup> <Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration> <ProductVersion>3.0</ProductVersion> <ProjectGuid>{2891ae0b-bf21-405f-b3af-87075ee2f574}</ProjectGuid> <SchemaVersion>2.0</SchemaVersion> <OutputName>SuiteSetup</OutputName> <OutputType>Package</OutputType> <WixTargetsPath Condition=" '$(WixTargetsPath)' == '' ">$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\Microsoft\WiX\v3.0\Wix.targets</WixTargetsPat h> <WixToolPath>$(ProgramFiles)\Windows Installer XML v3\bin\</WixToolPath> </PropertyGroup> <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'Debug' "> <OutputPath>bin\Debug\</OutputPath> <IntermediateOutputPath>obj\Debug\</IntermediateOutputPath> <CustomOutputPath>$(CustomOutputPath)</CustomOutputPath> <DefineConstants>Debug</DefineConstants> </PropertyGroup> <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'Release' "> <OutputPath>bin\Release\</OutputPath> <IntermediateOutputPath>obj\Release\</IntermediateOutputPath> <CustomOutputPath>$(CustomOutputPath)</CustomOutputPath> </PropertyGroup> <ItemGroup> <Compile Include="SuiteSetup.wxs" /> </ItemGroup> <ItemGroup> <WixExtension Include="C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Installer XML v3\bin\WixSqlExtension.dll" /> <WixExtension Include="C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Installer XML v3\bin\WixUIExtension.dll" /> <WixExtension Include="C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Installer XML v3\bin\WixUtilExtension.dll" /> </ItemGroup> <Import Project="$(WixTargetsPath)" /> </Project> Eric Latendresse -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gavin Bee Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 2:54 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Build Fails with NAnt. The format ofthefile 'NAntTasks.dll' is invalid. Sounds like you need to pass the desired output path to msbuild from nant. You can use the /property command line argument to msbuild.exe to pass property values from NAnt into MSBUILD. We use the a NAnt exec task that looks something like the following: <exec program="${framework::get-framework-directory(framework::get-target-fram ewor 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 :) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [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 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Enns 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 -----Original Message----- 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. 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