Thanks for the feedback John. This is a real pain for me. The Wix documentation is pretty poor and does not mention any kind of limit.
Can you tell me how you created the full path by concatenating the base and relative path. I presume there is some easy way of getting hold of the absolute path where the wix build is being run? Cheers sanjay > -----Original Message----- > From: John Bergman [mailto:john.berg...@xpedienttechnologies.com] > Sent: 10 November 2011 00:24 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] File Element - Source attribute > > I've encountered this. I had to shorten names that that the full path > is less than about 240 in order to get past the problems I was having. > > That means that your current path of your wix file, and append your > relative pathing and see how long the resulting string is, maybe you > are beyond the limit there somehow... > > As an alternative, you could define a base path using ?define and > concatenate the strings to get an absolute path; I've done that as > well... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sanjay Poria [mailto:sanjay.po...@xanalys.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 6:13 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] File Element - Source attribute > > Hi, > > I am hoping someone can help me here. I am defining a component with a > file like this: > > <?define BuildDir = "..\dirname1\dirname2\dirname3"?> > > <Component Id="cmpName" Guid="*"> <File Id="filName" > KeyPath="yes" > Source="$(var.BuildDir)/dirX/dirY/dirZ/dirA/rep_accusedcourtdate_1_2.xs > lt" /></Component> I am using the visual studio 10 to do this. When I > build the project, I get an error on this component only (I have loads > of others that work fine): The system cannot find > the file > '..\dirname1\dirname2\dirname3/dirX/dirY/dirZ/dirA/rep_accusedcourtdate > _1_2.xslt' with type ''. The file definitely exists (other files in the > same directory are picked up seem to work fine). My limited testing > tells me it's something to do with the length of the file name above > (including the path). Strange this is that if I replace the relative > path with an absolute one, it works fine. Any ideas what the problem > could be? Are there any (length of a string) type limits? Cheerssanjay > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- > RSA(R) Conference 2012 > Save $700 by Nov 18 > Register now > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
