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

[Hoover, Jacob]

At the very least its wix4 which is not complete/production stable.

-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of George Mauer
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2016 3:00 PM
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Subject: Re: [wix-users] Invalid DefaultDir when running light in WiX

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.
>
> _____________________________________________________________
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>
> -----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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