In both Windows Installer and in MSBuild all directory paths are always
expected to end with the trailing backslash. In fact, if you look at all of the
built-in properties for MSBuild all of the directory paths always end with the
backslash.
The fact that your WixToolPath ends in a letter instead of the backslash caused
your build error.
-Blair
> From: bria...@gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:23:26 -0500
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action Build Error
>
> Thanks, it is actually the file at C:\Program Files
> (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\WiX\v3.x\wix.ca.targets that needed updated.
>
> Brian
>
> Brian
>
> If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. -
> Albert Einstein
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Carter Young <ecyo...@grandecom.net>wrote:
>
> > Try Editing wix.ca.targets to read
> > <CreateProperty Value="$(WixToolPath)\..\sdk\" Condition="
> > '$(WixSdkPath)' == '' ">
> > <Output TaskParameter="Value" PropertyName="WixSdkPath" />
> > </CreateProperty>
> >
> > Looks like the Preprocessor Variable for $(WixToolPath) doesn't
> > contain the last trailing slash for the path, then submit a Bug
> > Request to the WiX Bugtracker and reference this Post, if and only if
> > the fix works.
> >
> > If all goes well, the bug fix will reqire editing the preprocer
> > variable to include the trailing slash. Once that's done you can
> > remove the manual edit we created from the targets file.
> >
> > Carter
> >
> > Quoting Brian Enderle <bria...@gmail.com>:
> >
> > > When I attempt to build my CustomAction project Visual Studio exits with
> > a
> > > code of 3.
> > >
> > > I have tracked the issue to the way wix.ca.targets references the path to
> > > MakeSfxCA.exe. <snip>
> >
> >
> >
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