[wix-devs] wix3 solution setup

[Rob Mensching]

Random note: all of this should be much easier to deal with in WiX v4 because we've isolated native code as much as possible and have fallen back to using the standard VS Dev prompt to get native SDKs configured.

WiX v4 isn't *quite* ready for other people to jump in but it will be soon.

Regards,

  Rob Mensching
  CEO
  FireGiant
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From: wix-devs [mailto:wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Bob Arnson via wix-devs
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Sorry, I'm not sure what's going on. It should be skipping the Windows 10 SDK entirely because it doesn't know about the newer version.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Arnson [mailto:bob at firegiant.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2017 9:28 AM
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Subject: RE: [wix-devs] wix3 solution setup

> The solutions are for debugging convenience. To build, run `msbuild 
> wix.proj` in the root.

Hah, ok moving further along, the first failure results from an incorrect path:

It tries to invoke "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\x86\rc.exe"
however that path does not exist:

C:\scm\wix3>where rc.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.16299.0\x86\rc.exe

Sorry guys, I have limited msbuild knowledge and have never worked with the platform SDK so I am unfamiliar with the conventions and tooling in that aspect.

Thanks for all the patience,
jlc
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