[wix-users] Question about getting a Wix compile running in Visual Studio 2017

[Rob Mensching]

It sounds like you created a WiX v4 project instead of a WiX v3 project. A WiX v3 project should not be asking for v4.

Note: v4 is under active development and there will be bugs if you try to use it.
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From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of Glenn Jones via wix-users
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2018 8:32 AM
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Cc: Glenn Jones <GJones at mathematica-mpr.com>
Subject: [wix-users] Question about getting a Wix compile running in Visual Studio 2017

Hi all,

I just installed Wix 3.11.1 on my machine and the Visual Studio Extension for VS 2017. All of this went well. I am able create a Wix Project but when I went to build it I got an error "The WiX Toolset v4 build tools must be installed to build this project. Could not find wix.targets at ''.". Now I did install the Wix Toolset, I can run candle and light as well, so I know the toolkit is installed. It looks to me like there is a configuration item missing since it is looking in '' for the wix.target file.

How can I correct this and start building setup from Visual Studio?

Thanks,

Glenn