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

[Ven H]

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
>