[wix-users] opening WiX source code in Visual Studio 2013

[Hoover, Jacob]

Wix.chm

But Wix is built from the command line, not so much from within the IDE.

http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/wixdev/building_wix.html

run "msbuild tools\OneTimeWixBuildInitialization.proj" from an elevated Visual Studio prompt
run msbuild from the root directory of your clone of the WiX Git repository

-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Reuss, Matthias
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2015 10:51 AM
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Subject: [wix-users] opening WiX source code in Visual Studio 2013

Hello,

recently I downloaded the WiX 3.9R2 source code in order to be able to better trace and understand some issues.

So I tried to open burn.sln in my VS2013.

Result: None of the projects could be loaded.

There are a lot of error messages like:

D:\Installation\WiX3.9Src\src\libs\dutil\dutil.vcxproj : error  : Unable to read the project file "dutil.vcxproj".
D:\Installation\WiX3.9Src\src\libs\dutil\dutil.vcxproj(164,3): The imported project "D:\tools\WixBuild.targets" was not found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.


Do I miss something? Is there some documentation about how to work with the WiX sources?

Best regards

Matthias Reuss

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