[wix-users] error LGHT0001: Failed to save resource. Error: 87

[Rob Mensching]

Please file bug for light to provide better error message for this case. Light takes the icon and inserts it into the final bundle .exe. Light will not do the work to extract the icon out of an .exe for this purpose. You can do that first.

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-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Farrukh Waheed
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 1:52 AM
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Subject: Re: [wix-users] error LGHT0001: Failed to save resource. Error: 87

Thanks Carter, but I was more concerned with error "light.exe(0,0): error
LGHT0001: Failed to save resource. Error: 87"

I've found that I was using an .exe file in Burn attribute "IconSourceFile". Replacing that with .ico file, solved the issue.
Does that mean, Burn can't use icons from .exe file, or I'm missing some method here?

Regards