I would say that your use of <DefineSolutionProperties> is unrelated to the "Unresolved reference" error, except for the following: The "Undefined preprocessor" error comes from candle, and the "Unresolved reference" error comes from light, and since candle runs before light, that error stops the build before the other error could ever surface.
Are you harvesting your C# projects from your WiX project? How are you "handcrafting" your references? What settings/properties have you set wrt your harvesting? That is where I would start my investigation. Blair -----Original Message----- From: David P. Romig, Sr. [mailto:d...@tcsc.com] Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 7:17 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix bug #1908338 regression in WiX 3.6? Bob, Thanks for your reply, but the problem is not related to the DDK or C++ projects. The DDK and C++ project setup is handled separately through hand-crafted references in their respective .wks files. Under WiX 3.5 this project built successfully using the same .wxs and .wixproj files. With WiX 3.6, when the element <DefineSolutionProperties>is 'False' or omitted, an IDE build or command line solution build raises the error "Unresolved reference to symbol 'WixComponentGroup:<C# module name>.Binaries' in section 'Fragment:'. D:\Projects\ trunk\src\app\Deployment\WixSetup\<C# module name>.wxs" for each of the dozen C# modules referenced in the .wixproj file. When the element <DefineSolutionProperties>is 'True', an IDE build or command line solution build raises the error "Undefined preprocessor variable '$(var.SolutionDir)'. D:\Projects\trunk\src\app\Deployment\WixSetup\PrinterManager.wxs" PrinterManager.wxs is the only project file containing a reference to the $(var.SolutionDir) variable. Could this be an issue in the wix2010.targets file? Thanks, Dave Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:56:44 -0500 From: Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix bug #1908338 regression in WiX 3.6? To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <4ecdc07c.2070...@joyofsetup.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 23-Nov-11 18:31, David P. Romig, Sr. wrote: > After installing WiX 3.6 beta, I'm receiving the error as described in > bug report 1908338. Is this a regression? That bug is about what happens when the values aren't defined (i.e., CNDL0150). > The solution contains 12 C# projects, a DDK project in C and a couple > C++ projects in addition to the WiX project. The build environment is > Visual Studio 2010 version 10.0.31118.1 SP1Rel. How is your C project built? WiX only supports project reference variables for MSBuild projects, so a Makefile project wrapping a DDK dirs/sources project won't work. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ------------------------------ The WiX-devs archive lists failure to resolve "$(var.SolutionDir)" as bug 1908338. After installing WiX 3.6 beta, I'm receiving the error as described in bug report 1908338. Is this a regression? Light raised the error "LGHT0094: Unresolved reference to symbol 'WixComponentGroup:Utilities.IO.Binaries' in section 'Fragment:'" for each ComponentGroupRef and the warning " C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\WiX\v3.x\wix2010.targets(1226,5): warning : Solution properties are only available during IDE builds or when building the solution file from the command line. To turn off this warning set <DefineSolutionProperties>false</DefineSolutionProperties> in your .wixproj file. [D:\Projects\trunk\src\app\Deployment\WixSetup\WixSetup.wixproj]". So in the initial PropertyGroup of the wixproj file I added the element definition "<DefineSolutionProperties>False</DefineSolutionProperties>". While this resolved the LGHT0094 error, the WiX project now fails to build with the error "error CNDL0150: Undefined preprocessor variable '$(var.SolutionDir)'." The solution contains 12 C# projects, a DDK project in C and a couple C++ projects in addition to the WiX project. The build environment is Visual Studio 2010 version 10.0.31118.1 SP1Rel. How can I use the project references and variables as listed in the documentation? Regards, Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
