[wix-devs] Building with Visual Studio 2015

Sean Hall r.sean.hall at gmail.com
Fri Jan 20 15:01:18 PST 2017


IIRC, we still target XP and the newer SDK's don't include that support.
So we have to install the 7.1A SDK (the latest that supports XP).

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Joel Budreau <joel.budreau at gmail.com>
wrote:

> FWIW, I’ve got mscoree.h in the following locations:
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Include\mscoree.h
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1A\Include\mscoree.h
>
> - Joel
>
> > On Jan 20, 2017, at 2:51 PM, Heath Stewart <heaths at outlook.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have Visual Studio 2015 with Windows 10 SDK installed, but can’t build
> with an error saying, originally, that the WindowsSDKDir_71A can’t be
> found. I ended up installing Windows SDK 7.1 and had to add a registry key
> named “v7.1A” since the full SDK doesn’t do “A” (only VS does), but now get
> an error that mscoree.h isn’t found (indeed, it’s not in the 7.1 SDK’s
> “include” dir).
> >
> > Anyone see anything like this? I’m using procmon and diagnostic log
> output to try to be able to build, but this is taking a lot of time just to
> build without even making any changes yet.
> >
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