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

[Ven H]

Thanks Habib. But my issue is different. I have all the references present
in the same folder.

Regards,
Venkatesh

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:13 PM, Habib Salim via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5343908/how-to-reference-gacd-dll-file
> s-in-wix-setup-project
>
> See Bob Aronson's answer.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
> Of Ven H via wix-users
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 10:02 AM
> To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Cc: Ven H <venh.123 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Issues with Harvesting COM and GAC DLLs
>
> 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(XmlWrit
> >> er
> >> writer)
> >>    at
> >> Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Serialize.TypeLib.OutputXml(XmlWr
> >> iter
> >> writer)
> >>    at
> >> Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Serialize.File.OutputXml(XmlWrite
> >> r
> >> writer)
> >>    at
> >> Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Serialize.Component.OutputXml(Xml
> >> Writer
> >> writer)
> >>    at
> >> Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Serialize.Directory.OutputXml(Xml
> >> Writer
> >> writer)
> >>    at
> >> Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Serialize.DirectoryRef.OutputXml(
> >> XmlWriter
> >> writer)
> >>    at
> >> Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Serialize.Fragment.OutputXml(XmlW
> >> riter
> >> 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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