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

[Ron Martin]

Bob,

I did run the build from a VS 2022 command prompt. It runs to completion 
if VS2019 is not installed,
but errs as I indicated if VS2019 is installed. The test results are the 
same when run from the VS 2022
GUI "Run all tests" command.

Ron

On 2/21/2022 6:19 PM, Bob Arnson wrote:
> 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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