[wix-users] File Path Issue in Light Command

[Edwin Castro]

My guess is that candle/light are run from the project directory within
Visual Studio. When candle/light are run directly they must be run from the
Content directory. To replicate the behavior seen in Visual Studio try
running candle/light from the project directory instead of the Content
directory.

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Edwin G. Castro

On Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 02:27 Ven H via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> I have a WiX Setup Project in Visual Studio. It has a folder called
> Content. This folder has all the WXS files, including the Product,
> LicenseAgreement etc. It also has the License.rtf file. The
> LicenseAgreement.wxs has a reference to License.rtf. Even though both are
> inside Content folder, Visual Studio throws error (in light command) if I
> don't give the path to License.rtf as Content\License.rtf. I am not able to
> understand this.
>
> If I run it directly (not from Visual Studio) using WiX Commands like
> Candle, Light etc, it works if the path is simply "License.rtf" and not
> "Content\License.rtf". This is weird.
>
> In short, LicenseAgreement.wxs is inside Content folder and so is
> License.rtf.
>
> But for this to work from Visual Studio, I need to specify
> "Content\License.rtf" as path in LicenseAgreement.wxs
>
> But using direct WiX command, I need to specify "License.rtf" as path in
> LicenseAgreement.wxs.
>
> Can anyone please help me with this?
>
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