[wix-devs] wix3 solution setup

Joseph L. Casale jcasale at activenetwerx.com
Tue Dec 19 12:24:48 PST 2017


-----Original Message-----
From: wix-devs [mailto:wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of
Sean Hall via wix-devs
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 1:10 PM
To: WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Cc: Sean Hall <r.sean.hall at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [wix-devs] wix3 solution setup
 
> We build the C++ projects with support for XP. The last Windows SDK to
> support XP was 7.1A, so I'm pretty sure that you're required to install
> this SDK to build WiX. You can install this in VS2017 if you go into the
> section of the installer with all the individual components and select
> "Windows XP support for C++" under "Compilers, build tools, and runtimes".

Ok, got that installed, now I get the following error:

LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'dutil.lib' [C:\scm\wix3\src\tools\winterop\winterop.vcxproj]

Looking online, I see an old mention [1] in the mailing list however I fail to interpret
the resolution.

[1] http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/WiX-3-0-to-3-5-issue-td5572008.html

Thanks everyone,
jlc


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