[wix-users] Heat with ToolsVersion 14.0

Sean Hall r.sean.hall at gmail.com
Wed Jun 21 14:23:17 PDT 2017


Using ToolsVersion="14.0" is supported, but "15.0" is not. What happens
when you build that project on the command line with MSBuild 14? (I'm
guessing it fails as well)

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Seravy <seravy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I raised an issue on github at
> https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/5620 which suggested that the
> fault of why i couldn't run heat.exe -pog Binaries on import which uses a
> v14 dll was because my tools version was 4.0 instead of 14. I set it to 4.0
> so that heat could figure out what msbuild to use, when i set it to 14 or
> 14.0 like it suggests i just get:
> heat.exe : error HEAT5307 : Build failed.
>
> I assumed that like "<Project ToolsVersion="12.0"'" It was not supported.
> I know because of the open ticket that ToolsVersion="15.0" (2017) is not
> supported.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Murray
>
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