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

[Farrukh Waheed]

Rob, bug is filed. #5330

On 23 June 2016 at 22:10, Carter Young <ecyoung at grandecom.net> wrote:

> The reason I provided the link for the other error first was to rule out
> if they are related.  As Rob states, it is possible that a failed Icon
> extraction could be the cause of an ignored rollback boundary.  If on
> the other hand, replacing the icon fixes error 87, but the rollback
> boundary is still ignored, then you need to consider fixing both.
>
> On 06/23/2016 09:55 AM, Rob Mensching wrote:
> > 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
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