Hey all, I appear to have successfully built 3.6 on Win7 x64 using VS2010 (in that the build completes successfully... I haven't actually tested the resulting binaries... up next adding a touch of code to light).
Here's how I did it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EUMV813paFsRVedMNEJo06ySLkeBvJOxwbby-Gku HXQ/edit Regards, Rob ps. Strange... I didn't get Jacob's second message. -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: October-20-12 1:43 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Trying to build Wix to debug a nasty problem... having problems Me too. WiX v3.7 is much easier to build. On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Hoover, Jacob <jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com>wrote: > I was able to build a while back when I had an x86 machine, but once I > upgraded to 64 bit I wasn't able to get a successful build done. I do > remember the help file giving a list of prerequisites, as well as a > few late nights using your favorite search engine to find random links > with bits and pieces. I'm excited to see all that nightmare go away > and be replaced by MSBuild. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert MacFadyen [mailto:rmacfad...@rmtrack.com] > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 2:51 PM > To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Trying to build Wix to debug a nasty problem... > having problems > > Thanks Jacob! > > Is there a guide to hacking on wix36? > > I haven't used nant in years... what should I be "nant'ng" (for > toolsrc and wix itself)? > > Regard, > > Rob > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] > Sent: October-19-12 3:43 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Trying to build Wix to debug a nasty problem... > having problems > > 3.6 is not meant to be built by Visual Studio and MSBuild. 3.6 is a > mess of Nant build scripts and is quite fragile. 3.7 is being redone > to build using just MSBuild or Visual Studio (though I haven't checked > to see any of the progress). > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert MacFadyen [mailto:rmacfad...@rmtrack.com] > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 2:32 PM > To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' > Subject: [WiX-users] Trying to build Wix to debug a nasty problem... > having problems > > Hey all, > > I'm trying to build Wix in VS2010 and I'm having a problem. > > I've downloaded the source from CodeProject using hg clone/hg update > (to > wix36 tag). > > The .sln appears to convert to vs2010 ok. Not sure why it was doing a > conversion though... should I be using vs2008? > > When I try and build a specific extension, WixUtilExtension, I'm > getting the following error: > Error reading resource file > 'c:\its\WixDevelopment\build\debug\x86\\util.wixlib' -- 'The system cannot > find the file specified. ' WixUtilExtension > > > When I try and build the entire solution I get several similar messages. > > So my question is where/when do the XXX.wixlib files get created? > > Regards > > Rob > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------ > -- > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite > for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------ > -- > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite > for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite > for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite > for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- virtually, Rob Mensching http://RobMensching.com LLC ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
