[wix-devs] Building wix310- binaries.zip

[Joel Budreau]

Thanks guys. I'll look into one of these solutions...

On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 7:26 AM, Sean Hall <r.sean.hall at gmail.com> wrote:

> We were able to drop 2008, so you need every version starting with 2010 to
> do an official build.
>
> The WixVSExtension.MSBuild##.dlls are dynamically loaded, so if you're not
> using them you could just modify the build file to not include them.  Or
> you could copy the official one to your build output folder.  Or you could
> do the work of getting the WiX build system to build those DLLs based on
> whether the Build Tools 2013/2015 are installed instead of whether the
> corresponding VS version is installed.
>
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 9:07 AM, Bob Arnson <bob at firegiant.com> wrote:
>
> > Seems likely. An official build requires every version of Visual Studio
> > starting with 2008. You might be able to get away with just installing
> > Build Tools 2013 instead.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wix-devs [mailto:wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
> > Of Joel Budreau
> > Sent: Thursday, 5 January, 2017 19:06
> > To: WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> > Subject: [wix-devs] Building wix310- binaries.zip
> >
> > Let's try on this list instead...
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Wix build question...
> >
> > I'm trying to build the wix310-binaries.zip file locally by running:
> >
> > msbuild.exe <wix-src-directory>\tools\WixRelease.relproj
> > /p:Configuration=Release
> >
> > I'm getting an error that the build is unable to find the file
> > "WixVSExtension.MSBuild12.dll", but it successfully finds
> > "WixVSExtension.MSBuild14.dll" since I've got VS2015 installed.
> >
> > Do I have to also install VS2013 in order to build
> > WixVSExtension.MSBuild12.dll and successfully generate a
> > wix310-binaries.zip file?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Joel
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