[wix-users] Issue with Heat & MSBuild

[Bevan Weiss]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36920054/wix-toolset-build-fails-after-upgrading-from-net-4-0-to-4-6-1-cannot-load-msbu

This seems to match your error message, and has a link back to a WiX GitHub issue.



24 Dec 2021 06:27:31 Ven H <venh.123 at gmail.com>:

> Hi Bevan,
> 
> Thanks a lot for your response. I think it was built using VS 2017 or before, but not quite sure. Other WiX projects build absolutely fine (with VS 2019 and WiX 3.11.2) without heat. I searched quite a bit but didn't find anything helpful. That's why I posted here.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 12:53 AM Bevan Weiss <bevan.weiss at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That version number for Microsoft.Build doesn't seem to match with Visual Studio 2019.
>> 
>> So what version of Visual Studio was used for the project originally?
>> It seems you have a fixed reference to an old MSBuild somewhere.
>> 
>> Do other WiX projects work fine? (With/without Heat)
>> 
>> Have you tried to google for the problem?
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Bevan
>> 
>> 24 Dec 2021 00:42:26 Ven H via wix-users <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>:
>> 
>>> Can anyone please help with this? I searched a lot, but could not find any
>>> solution.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 9:19 PM Ven H <venh.123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a Visual Studio 2019 Professional and Votive for 2019 installed. I
>>>> have WixToolSet v3.11.2 also installed. When I open an existing solution
>>>> (provided by a customer), with WiX Project and try to build it, I am
>>>> getting the following error. In the PreBuild event, they are calling the
>>>> Heat command. Can anyone please help? I think the project was built long
>>>> back with WiXToolSet v3.8.
>>>>
>>>> error HEAT5316: Failed to load MSBuild wrapper object: Could not load file
>>>> or assembly 'Microsoft.Build, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
>>>> PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system
>>>> cannot find the file specified.
>>>>
>>>
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