[wix-users] Issues with Harvesting COM and GAC DLLs

[Ven H]

Can anyone please provide some help / inputs?

Regards,
Venkatesh

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:02 AM, Ven H <venh.123 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Any help on this, please?
>
> Regards,
> Venkatesh
>
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 2:58 PM, Ven H <venh.123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am trying to harvest some dlls which have to be eventually deployed to
>> GAC through installer. When I am calling the heat command as below, I am
>> getting some
>> errors / warnings as mentioned below.
>>
>> *heat.exe dir "D:\\InstallTest" -cg \"MyCompGgroup\" -dr MY_DIR -gg -g1
>> -srd -sfrag -var var.OutDir -out "D:\\InstallTest\\MyComps.wxs"*
>>
>> 1. *Could not harvest data from a file that was expected to be a SelfReg
>> DLL. If this file does not support SelfReg, you can ignore this warning.
>> Otherwise, this error detail may be helpful to diagnose the failure. Unable
>> to load the file.*
>>
>> 2. *Could not harvest data from a file that was expected to be an
>> assembly. If this file is not an assembly, you can ignore this warning.
>> Otherwise, this error detail may be helpful to diagnose the failure. Could
>> not load the file or assembly 'Assembly Name' or one of its dependencies.
>> The system cannot find the file specified.*
>>
>> Actually, the files which are being mentioned as missing, are actually
>> present in the same directory.
>>
>> I am also trying to harvest some COM components with the same heat
>> command as above. I am getting the below warning
>>
>> *Ignoring the Registry key 'Interface\{Guid}\Something', it has already
>> been added to the Component 'cmpGuid'. The registry value '{Guid}' will not
>> be harvested.*
>>
>> For one of the COM components, the heat command even fails with the
>> following error.
>>
>> *heat.exe : error HEAT0001 : '.', hexadecimal value 0x00, is an invalid
>> character.*
>>
>> Exception Type: System.ArgumentException
>>
>> Stack Trace:
>>    at System.Xml.XmlEncodedRawTextWriter.InvalidXmlChar(Int32 ch, Char*
>> pDst, Boolean entitize)
>>    at System.Xml.XmlEncodedRawTextWriter.WriteAttributeTextBlock(Char*
>> pSrc, Char* pSrcEnd)
>>    at System.Xml.XmlEncodedRawTextWriter.WriteString(String text)
>>    at System.Xml.XmlEncodedRawTextWriterIndent.WriteString(String text)
>>    at System.Xml.XmlWellFormedWriter.WriteString(String text)
>>    at System.Xml.XmlWriter.WriteAttributeString(String localName, String
>> value)
>>    at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Serialize.Class.OutputXml(XmlWriter
>> writer)
>>    at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Serialize.TypeLib.OutputXml(XmlWriter
>> writer)
>>    at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Serialize.File.OutputXml(XmlWriter
>> writer)
>>    at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Serialize.Component.OutputXml(XmlWriter
>> writer)
>>    at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Serialize.Directory.OutputXml(XmlWriter
>> writer)
>>    at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Serialize.DirectoryRef.OutputXml(XmlWriter
>> writer)
>>    at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Serialize.Fragment.OutputXml(XmlWriter
>> writer)
>>    at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Serialize.Wix.OutputXml(XmlWriter
>> writer)
>>    at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Heat.Run(String[] args)
>>
>>
>> Can anyone please help?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Venkatesh
>>
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