It's not officially supported, but the guards to prevent using wixlibs from
other versions of the toolset can be suppressed (in light, it's the "suppress
version" (sv) option). I assume that incompatibilities will cause a crash upon
load, but I haven't tested that.
The place you are most likely to find problems are in the "unreal" tables
(tables that are not placed into the MSI/EXE but are instead metadata used by
either the linker or the binder to do its work.
Use at your own risk...
Blair
> From: jocoo...@jackhenry.com
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 21:05:55 +0000
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] wixlib backward compatibility in WiX 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
>
> I have used wixlibs on WiX 3.5 and WiX 3.6 projects. My experience is that a
> Wix 3.5 built wixlib will work with WiX 3.6 projects, but the converse is not
> true.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Turner [mailto:mcturner...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2013 3:58 PM
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [WiX-users] wixlib backward compatibility in WiX 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
>
> Does anyone have experience using 3.5-built wixlibs with light.exe in WiX 3.6
> and 3.7? For purposes of this discussion, I'm only concerned with the
> official RTMs (3.5.2519.0, 3.6.3303.0, 3.7.1224.0).
>
> My objective is to use wixlibs for inter-project collaboration, so that one
> project can produce wixlibs for reuse in other projects.
>
> Is the wixlib format reasonably backward-compatible across these versions, or
> would I be better off requiring all parties to use the same version of the
> WiX toolset?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
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