[wix-devs] wix3 solution setup

[Joseph L. Casale]

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Arnson [mailto:bob at firegiant.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 9:02 AM
To: WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Cc: Joseph L. Casale <jcasale at activenetwerx.com>
Subject: RE: wix3 solution setup

> Just because it's explicit doesn't mean that it's *right*. 😊 It's a generic
> "couldn't find a supported SDK" error; the message should say that. All the
> SDKs are detected via
> https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix3/blob/develop/tools/WixBuild.props.

Ok, I redeployed a vm and I trying to get this resolved. I have found that
installing the "Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4"
v7.1 (7.1.7600.0.30514) first with the reg hacks succeeds and a complete install
is successful. I then installed vs2017 and I still get the build errors from both VS
and the cli.

My msbuild knowledge is weak, however looking at file WixBuild.props file,
it appears it checks for versions of the SDK which are older than I have.

For Win 10, I have 10.0.16299 instead of 10.0.14393.0, and for Win 7 I have
7.1 (7.1.7600.0.30514) and not 7.1A (7.1.51106) for example.

Thanks for the help guys,
jlc