I'm getting trouble with light using Wix3 with TFS Build.
The basic problem is that TFS build redirects $(OutputPath) to its own
location. This is fine and looking at the log and the command parameters
sent to light, the msi/msm files will be written there. All well and
good. The problem is that light.exe still looks for the .dll files that
it intends to package up in the non-redirected solution output
directory. How can I get it to look in the right place?
A excerpt from the .wixproj file:
<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' ==
'Release|x86' ">
<OutputPath>$(SolutionDir)$(Configuration)\</OutputPath>
<IntermediateOutputPath>obj\$(Configuration)\</IntermediateOutputPath>
<LinkerAdditionalOptions>-b $(OutputPath)
-v</LinkerAdditionalOptions>
<CompilerAdditionalOptions>
</CompilerAdditionalOptions>
</PropertyGroup>
Note that the output path is correctly redirected by TFS Build. However,
the <LinkerAdditionalOptions> expands $(OutputPath) to mean
$(SolutionDir)$(Configuration) and not the new value for $(OutputPath)
provided by TFS Build.
A typical log line for the call to light.exe is:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Installer XML v3\bin\Light.exe
-cultures:null
-out D:\SDLX\SDLX_2010_Core\Binaries\Win32\Release\SDLXUserInterface.msm
-pdbout
D:\SDLX\SDLX_2010_Core\Binaries\Win32\Release\SDLXUserInterface.wixpdb
-b D:\SDLX\SDLX_2010_Core\Sources\Source\solutions\Everything\Release\
-v
obj\Release\Binaries.wixobj obj\Release\MergeModule.wixobj
What magic incantation can I use to fix this so that the -b line reads
-b D:\SDLX\SDLX_2010_Core\Binaries\Win32\Release\ -v
It all builds fine from the Desktop.
Christian.
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