Hi Blair!
I have latest stable version of WiX 3.0.
I was playing around with this issue and found a workaround.
If I add a reference to "MyProject", Visual studio Solution Explorer
displays a reference to it as "MyProject (MyProject\MyProject)".
So I edited WiX project file (Setup.wixproj) manually.
Original reference to "MyProject"in WiX project file that did not compile was:
<ProjectReference Include="..\MyProject\MyProject.csproj">
<Name>MyProject (MyProject\MyProject)</Name>
<Project>{3e483c28-64f3-478b-8297-2fafb426cae3}</Project>
<Private>True</Private>
</ProjectReference>
After change a reference to "MyProject"in WiX project file looked like:
<ProjectReference Include="..\MyProject\MyProject.csproj">
<Name>MyProject</Name>
<Project>{3e483c28-64f3-478b-8297-2fafb426cae3}</Project>
<Private>True</Private>
</ProjectReference>
After changing the name of a reference Visual studio Solution Explorer
displayed a reference to "MyProject" properly as "MyProject"
and everything works OK!
I think this is a problem with Votive and environment variables...
Best regards,
Sandi
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From: Blair <os...@live.com>
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
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Sent: Fri, November 6, 2009 1:36:48 AM
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Environment variable that has project name with
parentheses - $(var.MyProject (MyProject\MyProject).TargetFileName)
Attachments usually don't survive the list server.
What version/build of WiX do you have installed?
-----Original Message-----
From: Sandi Remar [mailto:sandi_re...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 12:43 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Environment variable that has project name with
parentheses - $(var.MyProject (MyProject\MyProject).TargetFileName)
Hello Blair!
Thank you for your answer.
But I wanted to ask something else.
I will try to explain a little better:
I have a solution named "MySolution" with two solution folders - "MyProject"
and "MySetup".
Solution folder "MyProject" has one library project named "MyProject".
Solution folder "MySetup"has one WiX project named "Setup".
When I add a reference to "MyProject", a reference is added as "MyProject
(MyProject\MyProject)" - see attached pic. "TheSameName.bmp".
If I try to compile
<File Id="ServerDllFile"
Name="$(var.MyProject(MyProject\MyProject).TargetFileName)"
Source="$(var.MyProject(MyProject\MyProject).TargetPath)" DiskId="1"
KeyPath="yes" /> I get an error :
"Error 1 Undefined preprocessor variable
'$(var.MyProject.TargetPath)'. D:\Zacasni\Test VS
Project2\MySolution\Setup\Product.wxs 13 1 Setup"
But if I rename a Solution folder "MyProject" to "MyProjectRenamed", and add
a reference to "MyProject", a reference is added properly as "MyProject " -
see attached pic. "DifferentName.bmp"
and everything compiles OK.
I can compile
<File Id="ServerDllFile" Name="$(var.MyProject.TargetFileName)"
Source="$(var.MyProject.TargetPath)" DiskId="1" KeyPath="yes" /> with no
errors.
Thank you for your time and patience,
Sandi
________________________________
From: Blair <os...@live.com>
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
<wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thu, November 5, 2009 5:20:21 PM
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Environment variable that has project name with
parentheses - $(var.MyProject (MyProject\MyProject).TargetFileName)
For WiX, the solution isn't considered a project. So, your
MyProject\MyProject is known to the WiX preprocessor as simply MyProject.
Thus, no matter the name of the solution, your references will remain like
$(var.MyProject.TargetFileName).
Accessing the solution itself is via the following preprocessor macros:
$(var.SolutionDir)
$(var.SolutionExt)
$(var.SolutionFileName)
$(var.SolutionName)
$(var.SolutionPath)
-----Original Message-----
From: Sandi Remar [mailto:sandi_re...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 4:57 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Environment variable that has project name with
parentheses - $(var.MyProject (MyProject\MyProject).TargetFileName)
Hello everybody!
I am new to WiX, so I hope that my question is not too dumb :-)
I use Visual Studio 2008 with Votive and WiX 3.0.
I have a problem using environment variables that have project names with
parentheses.
I stumbled upon this problem when I was adding a file to WiX source.
I have a solution with a Solution folder "MyProject" that contains a project
named "MyProject".
Since a Solution folder name is the same as the name of a project in it,
Visual studio obviously wants to destinguish these two names by changing a
project name.
I see this when I want to add reference to that project in Votive.
When I click References->Add Reference->Project, I see a reference to
"MyProject" listed as "MyProject (MyProject\MyProject)"
Here is the problem - Visual studio sees "MyProject" as "MyProject
(MyProject\MyProject)", but WiX reports an error when I compile this code:
<File Id="ServerDllFile" Name="$(var.MyProject
(MyProject\MyProject).TargetFileName)" Source="$(var.MyProject
(MyProject\MyProject).TargetPath)" DiskId="1" KeyPath="yes" />
I guess that parentheses in project name disturbs preprocessor.
When I change Solution folder name to some other name, "MyProject" is listed
as "MyProject"
and not "MyProject (MyProject\MyProject)"
and everything is OK, WiX compiles with no errors, when I compile this code:
<File Id="ServerDllFile" Name="$(var.MyProject.TargetFileName)"
Source="$(var.MyProject.TargetPath)" DiskId="1" KeyPath="yes" />
I tried to put project name in double quotes , like $(var."MyProject
(MyProject\MyProject)".TargetFileName), but this does not work...
Does anybody have any suggestions?
Thanks!
Sandi
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