Let me guess: your three small apps are native C++. This is a limitation of the APIs Votive uses to extract information about other projects in the solution. DevDiv has been trying for a decade now to kill off native code.
The project references currently only work against msbuild and managed projects. Native C++ projects currently require not using the project reference variables. -----Original Message----- From: Brian Williams [mailto:brianjackiewilli...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 5:00 PM To: Wix Users Subject: [WiX-users] Issue with var.Project.x variables in WIX 3.0 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
