[wix-users] Issue with Heat & MSBuild

[Ven H]

Thank you Bevan. I did check this, but couldn't get any solution.


On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 12:59 AM Bevan Weiss <bevan.weiss at gmail.com> wrote:

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> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36920054/wix-toolset-build-fails-after-upgrading-from-net-4-0-to-4-6-1-cannot-load-msbu
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> This seems to match your error message, and has a link back to a WiX
> GitHub issue.
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> 24 Dec 2021 06:27:31 Ven H <venh.123 at gmail.com>:
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> 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:
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>> 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>:
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>>
>> > 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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