[wix-users] error LGHT0001: Illegal characters in path.

[Farrukh Waheed]

There might be some issue with your environment on your laptop.
I've found 2 threads, might be useful in this context:

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   https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/f7c4b6f6-29b2-417a-be68-2c45e232981b/illegal-characters-in-path?forum=tfsbuild
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   http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/WiX-3-6-and-System-ArgumentException-quot-illegal-characters-in-path-quot-during-build-td6975562.html

Just for experiment, uninstall wix 3.10 and install wix 9.x and see if it
works with msbuild there...
Hope it helps



On 25 April 2016 at 14:10, Magi, Sampattakumar S <
Sampattakumar.Magi at in.unisys.com> wrote:

> User :
>
> TEMP =  C:\Users\magisams\AppData\Local\Temp (Earlier it was
> %userprofile%appdata\local\temp, I replaced the full path manually to see
> if error goes)
> TMP = C:\Users\magisams\AppData\Local\Temp
>
> System  :
> TEMP= %SystemRoot%\TEMP
> TMP = %SystemRoot%\TEMP
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
> Of Rob Mensching
> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 2:36 PM
> To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] error LGHT0001: Illegal characters in path.
>
> What's your temp folder path?
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
> Of Magi, Sampattakumar S
> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 2:04 AM
> To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] error LGHT0001: Illegal characters in path.
>
> Excerpt from the msbuild log set to diagnostic
>                 Windows Installer XML Toolset Linker version 3.10.2.2516
>                 Copyright (c) Outercurve Foundation. All rights reserved.
> light.exe(0,0): error LGHT0001: Illegal characters in path.
>                 Exception Type: System.ArgumentException
>                 Stack Trace:
>                    at System.IO.Path.CheckInvalidPathChars(String path,
> Boolean checkAdditional)
>                    at System.IO.Path.NormalizePath(String path, Boolean
> fullCheck, Int32 maxPathLength, Boolean expandShortPaths)
>                    at System.IO.Path.GetFullPathInternal(String path)
>                    at System.IO.Path.GetFullPath(String path)
>                    at
> System.CodeDom.Compiler.TempFileCollection.EnsureTempNameCreated()
>                    at
> Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.WixBinder.set_TempFilesLocation(String
> value)
>
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