Anyone,
I'm obviously new to WIX. This is my first project where we are using WIX to
generate the installer. I've got to say that I will never do it another way
again.
I am having a problem that seems to mean I'm brain dead because it is so
basic. I was developing and testing for XP using VS2003 and WIX2.0 -
everything was working fine, however, for obvious reasons I need to move into
the current century and have upgraded my development machine to Vista
Business, the development environment to VS2008 Standard and installer package
to WIX3.0.
Votive is now working much better for me, and yes it took a while to convert to
the new schema.
The only thing that doesn't seem to be working is the variable references to
other projects in the solution...
I have a solution with 4 projects (three small apps and a WIX project). One of
the projects is named AppHelp
I've added the project reference to the WIX project - but the reference shows
up with a triangular ! icon on it and in the properties the "Full Path"
property is blank?
When I build the WIX project I get the error: error CNDL0150: Undefined
preprocessor variable '$(var.AppHelp.ProjectDir)'.
The problem isn't specific to AppHelp - it is true for any of the other
projects, and for any of their "." attributes... even $(var.App.TargetFileName)
The solution is in the directory C:\users\brian\documents\Visual Studio
2008\Solutions\ISP
each of the four projects are under that directory (for example ISPHelp is in:
C:\users\brian\documents\Visual Studio 2008\Solutions\ISP\ISPHelp)
The error is on the first "$(var.<project name>.<value>) reference in the .wxs
file - if I remove it, or put another project reference first, the error is for
the first reference to any project variable.
Currently have UAC in Vista turned off.
For now I've worked around it by defining my own variables...
I'm sure it is something dumb I've done, but can't seem to find any direction
on where to look. Any assistance would be appreciated for the Newbee..
Brian
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