[wix-users] Invalid DefaultDir when running light in WiX

[Jeremy Farrell]

I don't understand what you mean about there not being an official 
release of WiX. Official releases are linked from 
http://wixtoolset.org/releases/, wix310-binaries.zip is the latest 
official release in a form with no installer or requirement for Visual 
Studio integration.

Regards,
                         jjf

On 09/08/2016 21:00, George Mauer wrote:
> As far as I'm aware there is not an official one, right? kzu (the
> maintainer) is Daniel Cazzulino who does a lot in the .Net community so I
> figured that's as good one to go with as any.
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com> wrote:
>
>> FYI: That isn't an official distribution of the WiX Toolset.
>>
>> _____________________________________________________________
>>   Short replies here. Complete answers over there:
>> http://www.firegiant.com/
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
>> Of George Mauer
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2016 12:45 PM
>> To: wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
>> Subject: [wix-users] Invalid DefaultDir when running light in WiX
>>
>> This is cross-posted to StackOverflow
>> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38858803/invalid-
>> defaultdir-when-running-light-in-wix>.
>> Sorry
>> to do that, but it feels like I'm so close and under a time crunch.
>>
>>
>> I simply want to do an installer that will move some files into Program
>> Files, set up a start menu link, and appear in the add/remove program to be
>> uninstalled. For the time being I'm happy to punt on the start-menu link as
>> that seems relatively straight forward
>>
>> The caveat is that I specifically want this to be build-able from a script
>> *without* any sort of global installs. That means no Visual Studio
>> extension nor any global installation of the WiX toolkit.
>>
>> I was able to find WiX on nuget
>> <https://www.nuget.org/packages/WiX/4.0.0.3922-pre> which seems to come
>> with all the correct executables packaged. So I would like to use these. I
>> set up aliases for candle, light, and heat to draw from the tools/directory.
>>
>> To start with, I create a very simple file structure that I want moved
>> into Program Files/Foo
>>
>> /temp/SourceDir/
>>    |- bar.txt
>>    |- one.txt
>>    |- afolder/
>>       |- baz.txt
>>
>> I also use a WixSample project and some recommendations <
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38795093/how-to-
>> include-the-output-of-heat-in-a-wix-file-no-visual-studio-
>> project/38799280#38799280>
>> to
>> create the following /temp/foo.wxs:
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Wix xmlns="http://wixtoolset.org/
>> schemas/v4/wxs">
>>      <!-- Use * to generate product ID on every build -->
>>      <Product Id="*" Language="1033" Manufacturer="gim" Name="Foo Sample"
>> UpgradeCode="1750d746-841f-4a27-a0ba-661b093dac23"
>> Version="1.0.0.0">
>>          <Package Comments="comments!" Compressed="yes"
>> Description="Attempting to learn Wix" InstallScope="perMachine"
>> Manufacturer="gim"/>
>>          <MediaTemplate EmbedCab="yes"/>
>>          <!--Directory structure-->
>>          <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
>>              <Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder">
>>                  <Directory Id="DYNAMIC" Name="Dynamic"/>
>>              </Directory>
>>          </Directory>
>>          <!--Features-->
>>          <Feature Id="AllOfTheFiles">
>>              <ComponentGroupRef Id="CMPG_AllOfTheFiles"/>
>>          </Feature>
>>      </Product></Wix>
>>
>> I then run
>>
>> temp> heat dir W:\temp\SourceDir\ -cg CMPG_AllOfTheFiles -ke -dr
>> DYNAMIC -gg -sfrag -o .\Dynamic.wxs
>>
>> Which generates Dynamic.wxs
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Wix xmlns="http://wixtoolset.org/
>> schemas/v4/wxs">
>>      <Fragment>
>>          <DirectoryRef Id="DYNAMIC">
>>              <Directory Id="dirGQx5YQf5IXUdDl9BwSUIwBDODsQ"
>> Name="SourceDir">
>>                  <Component Id="cmpGDFXrG8sOAaKgy928OXqQ2tfoYI"
>> Guid="{19459DB2-B1C7-4981-A0B9-F1CA0027B458}">
>>                      <File Id="fil9Q22BRrI_M6KyGIXyzknyYKsXYM"
>> KeyPath="yes" Source="SourceDir\bar.txt" />
>>                  </Component>
>>                  <Component Id="cmpiuJCUGMxrseFgAzuyEWugfL6co0"
>> Guid="{C09CEC2D-675C-438A-815D-E97D80B46579}">
>>                      <File Id="filJdeJM1_v6rytDwKRYjkJ6S4Ukos"
>> KeyPath="yes" Source="SourceDir\one.txt" />
>>                  </Component>
>>                  <Directory Id="dir1V3jm.snhkr1aYM.1IgU9rhSuSM"
>> Name="afolder">
>>                      <Component Id="cmpnBgBnytwthO6y_QeTGG7n0P_cSw"
>> Guid="{4AAC9123-F1FE-4DFF-B7EB-1D0A7053ECF9}">
>>                          <File Id="filDNjPHE_Pp2VbCtvIxLyegx_2prU"
>> KeyPath="yes" Source="SourceDir\afolder\baz.txt" />
>>                      </Component>
>>                  </Directory>
>>              </Directory>
>>          </DirectoryRef>
>>      </Fragment>
>>      <Fragment>
>>          <ComponentGroup Id="CMPG_AllOfTheFiles">
>>              <ComponentRef Id="cmpGDFXrG8sOAaKgy928OXqQ2tfoYI" />
>>              <ComponentRef Id="cmpiuJCUGMxrseFgAzuyEWugfL6co0" />
>>              <ComponentRef Id="cmpnBgBnytwthO6y_QeTGG7n0P_cSw" />
>>          </ComponentGroup>
>>      </Fragment></Wix>
>>
>> I then run
>>
>> temp> candle .\foo.wxs
>> temp> candle .\Dynamic.wxs
>>
>> Which generates a wixobj for each.
>>
>> Finally I try to light these.
>>
>> temp> light .\foo.wixobj .\Dynamic.wixobj -o .\foo.msi -nologo
>> W:\temp\Dynamic.wxs(5) : error LGHT0204 : ICE03: Invalid DefaultDir
>> string; Table: Directory, Column: DefaultDir, Key(s):
>> dirGQx5YQf5IXUdDl9BwSUIwBDODsQ
>>
>> At this point I'm stumped. I have no idea what this error means nor how to
>> fix it - why is that directory causing issue?

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J. J. Farrell
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