[wix-devs] Static libraries across VS versions

[Sean Hall]

We might have to install it ourselves in our build script.

On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 10:54 PM Bob Arnson via wix-devs <
wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> Status report: The full build works on my machine! It fails on the build
> machine!
>
> I believe Sean pointed out that the .NET Framework 4.0 reference
> assemblies aren't installed on the build machine, because they're no longer
> included in VS2022. That causes the DTF build to fail. I (temporarily)
> retargeted them and now the build fails with NuGet warnings because you're
> not supposed to use Microsoft.NETFramework.ReferenceAssemblies with
> SDK-style projects (or with central package versioning)... I don't know how
> to suppress NU1009 from a `nuget restore`. So that's where I'm at tonight.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-devs <wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of Bob
> Arnson via wix-devs
> Sent: Sunday, 5 December, 2021 20:07
> To: Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com>; WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List
> <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Cc: Bob Arnson <bob at firegiant.com>
> Subject: Re: [wix-devs] Static libraries across VS versions
>
> Yep. I'm putting them in a `v14` directory in the nupkegs, just in case we
> need to handle an incompatible `v15`.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com>
> Sent: Sunday, 5 December, 2021 19:08
> To: WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Cc: Bob Arnson <bob at firegiant.com>
> Subject: RE: Static libraries across VS versions
>
> Frist, yay! My votes:
>
> 1. Yes.
> 2. No.
> 3. Yes (I've been working with WiX solely from VS2022 for a while now,
> everything is working well)
>
> So `v143` for everything?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-devs <wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of Bob
> Arnson via wix-devs
> Sent: Sunday, December 5, 2021 3:21 PM
> To: WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Cc: Bob Arnson <bob at firegiant.com>
> Subject: [wix-devs] Static libraries across VS versions
>
> I'll open an issue but wanted to get a head start. I gave myself the
> action item (oh god, I can't believe I just said that) to investigate
> whether we could build our static libraries with the latest VS and use them
> "down-level" on earlier versions of VS. The answer...
>
> ...is yes, we can. I built DUtil with VS2022 and with some tweak to the
> nupkeg was able to consume it from a project originally built with VS2019
> and subsequently built with VS2017. It's not an exhaustive test - console,
> string, proc -- but I suspect that it was more of a pass/fail test.
>
> Questions:
>
>
>   1.  Should we do this? (I vote +1.)
>   2.  Should we do this now, with VS2019 as the baseline?
>   3.  Should we decide now to use VS2022 as the baseline?
>
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