[wix-devs] Building Wix 4.0 commit f94e47a9e1b6d4366e5d2c8e850067204d0c5dc9 with VS 2019 present in addition to VS2022

[Bob Arnson]

You have to run the build from a "Developer Command Prompt for VS 2022" shell. The MSBuild tests have some backward-compatibility features (that likely are no longer used) but the build doesn't.

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From: wix-devs <wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of Ron Martin via wix-devs
Sent: Monday, 21 February, 2022 18:02
To: wix-devs <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Cc: Ron Martin <cpuwzd at comcast.net>
Subject: [wix-devs] Building Wix 4.0 commit f94e47a9e1b6d4366e5d2c8e850067204d0c5dc9 with VS 2019 present in addition to VS2022

I've run into a problem when building commit
f94e47a9e1b6d4366e5d2c8e850067204d0c5dc9 from the command line. Here is a summary of the output:

[xUnit.net 00:00:09.04]
WixE2E.WixE2EFixture.CanBuildPackageWithNativeWindowsApp [FAIL]
    MSBuild failed unexpectedly. Output:
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 16.11.2+f32259642 for .NET Framework
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\amd64\MSBuild.exe
 >>>-bl -Restore -v:m
D:\AltRepos\AltWix\wix4\build\IntegrationWix\Debug\net472\TestData
 >>>\WixprojPackageVcxprojWindowsApp\WixprojPackageVcxprojWindowsApp.wixproj
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v160

 >>>\Microsoft.CppBuild.targets(439,5): error MSB8020: The build tools for v143 (Platform Toolset = 'v143')  >>>cannot be found.  To build using the v143 build tools, please install v143 build tools.
 >>>Alternatively, you may upgrade to the current Visual Studio tools by selecting the Project menu  >>>or right-click the solution, and then selecting "Retarget solution".
 >>>[D:\AltRepos\AltWix\wix4\build\IntegrationWix\Debug\net472\
 >>>TestData\VcxprojWindowsApp\VcxprojWindowsApp.vcxproj]
.....................................................................................
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v160
 >>>\Microsoft.CppBuild.targets(439,5): error MSB8020: The build tools for v143 (Platform Toolset = 'v143')  >>>cannot be found. To build using the v143 build tools, please install
v143 build tools.
 >>>Alternatively, you may upgrade to the current Visual Studio tools by selecting the Project menu  >>>or right-click the solution, and then selecting "Retarget solution".
 >>>[D:\AltRepos\AltWix\wix4\build\IntegrationWix\Debug\net472\
 >>>TestData\VcxprojStaticLib\VcxprojStaticLib.vcxproj]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
[xUnit.net 00:00:24.35] WixE2E.WixE2EFixture.CanBuildWixlibWithNativeDll
[FAIL]
    MSBuild failed unexpectedly. Output:
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 16.11.2+f32259642 for .NET Framework
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\amd64\MSBuild.exe
 >>>-bl -Restore -v:m
D:\AltRepos\AltWix\wix4\build\IntegrationWix\Debug\net472\TestData
 >>>\WixprojLibraryVcxprojDll\WixprojLibraryVcxprojDll.wixproj
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v160
 >>>\Microsoft.CppBuild.targets(439,5): error MSB8020: The build tools for v143 (Platform Toolset = 'v143')  >>>cannot be found. To build using the v143 build tools, please install
v143 build tools.
 >>>Alternatively, you may upgrade to the current Visual Studio tools by selecting the Project menu  >>>or right-click the solution, and then selecting "Retarget solution".
 >>>[D:\AltRepos\AltWix\wix4\build\IntegrationWix\Debug\net472\
 >>>TestData\VcxprojStaticLib\VcxprojStaticLib.vcxproj]

Because these messages indicated that VS 2019 was being used for these two builds, but VS 2019 was looking for the VS 2022 build tools, I decided to remove VS2019 from my system. I repeated the build and it was successful.

I thought that perhaps there were vcxproj files calling for tools version 15.0, and that while searching for an appropriate match, VS2019 might be used, if present. In fact, there were
24 such vcxproj files. I updated all of them to use version 16.0, but with VS 2019 re-installed, the same failures again occurred.

If you run the WixE2ETests from VS 2022, the failures also occur, but I haven't tried that with VS 2019 removed.

I assume that I missed some parameter that needs to be changed to specify the version of VS to be used when building a vcxproj.

Ron
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