[wix-users] WIX just stuck during build

[Sebastian Möller]

Hello all,

I used to have a working WIX (3.11, latest) project to be built on an on-premise build machine (triggered from VSTS).
All worked well, unless I tried to implement COM registration.

I followed https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24445322/how-to-run-heat-exe-and-register-a-dll-in-wix to generate the required fragment with Heat.exe, and added the resulting ‘Class’ and ‘RegistryValue’ nodes to the corresponding file-node in my Components.wxs file.
All looks good I think, and is also syntactically correct, but now WIX just stops in the middle of the build process, let the build fail with timeout exception (60 min standard timeout).

Hence, my questions:

  *   Is there any logging / tracing that WIX is creating during build, so that I can look for more details?
  *   Is there any special trick to carry out if applying the heat.exe created fragment to the already existing Components.wxs file?

Any help greatly appreciated,
Sebastian