[wix-users] Experience of build with WiX 4 Toolset

[Sean Hall]

Thanks for trying it out and reporting your findings here.

WIX1150 is a warning, you must have opted in to treating warnings as
errors. It was added in v4 and it looks like we missed the Fragment symbol.
Fragment/@Id is not deprecated, but at the same time it doesn't actually do
anything.

WIX8500 is also a warning, and it was also added in v4. The issue that it
is warning about existed in v3 as well, it just didn't tell you about it.

I'm confused why you brought up missing loc variables. Did you expect them
to be found?

Custom BAs are very complex so it's pretty much impossible to guess what's
wrong. It would help if you could provide the Burn log from %TEMP% along
with the relevant code from your BA.

On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 6:03 AM Timofey Evsyutkin via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> Hi there
>
> I have recently converted and built a small "Test Project" from v3 to v4.
> I took 4.0.0-preview.1-build.425 for this and got some errors.
>
> Converter did not cover some situations.
>
> Related to WIX0022 after converting:
> 1. There is an empty condition. For example,
>      <Text><![CDATA[]]></Text>
> 2. There is an inner comment. For example,
>      <Custom Action ... something here ... >
>          <!-- comment of action -->
>          <![CDATA[ ... something here ... ]]]
>      </Custom>
>      <Condition Message="!(loc.UpdateKB2533623NotFound)">
>          <!-- comment of condition -->
>          <![CDATA[NOT ((UpdateKB2533623Exist = "No") AND (VersionNT =
> 601))]]>
>      </Condition>
> 3. There is a condition in include file (wxi). For example,
>      <Include xmlns="http://wixtoolset.org/schemas/v4/wxs">
>          <Condition Message="!(loc.InvalidOsVersion)">
>              <![CDATA[NOT (VersionNT < 601)]]>
>          </Condition>
>      </Include>
>
> Related to WIX1150. For example,
>      ~\test_product\fragments.wxi(7) : error WIX1150:
>      The binder doesn't know how to place the following symbol into the
> output:
>      SymbolName: 'WixFragment', Id: 'MsiPackages'
> Are identifiers of fragments deprecated?
>
> I submitted it because the converter did not mark them as an error.
> However it is taking place when you are building with wix.
>
> When I was building a Bundle, I got these errors:
> ~\test_product\components\test_product.wxi(21) : error WIX8500:
> The Payload 'cabqsnbgoiL2yJhlIDGB7CrS2Lfb7k' has a duplicate Name
> 'setup.cab' in the attached container.
> When extracting the bundle with dark.exe, the file will get overwritten.
> ~\test_product\components\test_product.wxi(12) : error WIX8501:
> The location of the payload related to the previous error.
>
> I suppressed them, is it ok?
>
> Also I've got these errors:
> ~\src\Bundle.wxs(55) : error WIX0102:
> The localization variable !(loc.DisplayName) is unknown.  Please ensure the
> variable is defined.
> ~\src\Bundle.wxs(11) : error WIX0102:
> The localization variable !(loc.DisplayName) is unknown.  Please ensure the
> variable is defined.
> ~\src\Bundle.wxs(11) : error WIX0102:
> The localization variable !(loc.DisplayName) is unknown.  Please ensure the
> variable is defined.
>
> I "fixed" my code. After that I got MSIs and EXE-installer. MSI works fine
> as expected.
> However, I noticed strange behavior with EXE.
> After a successful installation, when I run the installer again,
> the bootstrapperCommand is determined to downgrade.
> It was expected that there would be an opportunity to choose an action:
> modify/repair/remove.
> But when I skipped the downgrade action in debugging and chose the remove
> action,
> the uninstall didn't happen.
> note: I use WixManagedBootstrapperApplicationHost and
> WixDotNetCoreBootstrapperApplicationHost.
> What am I doing wrong? Can I influence the engine through events or should
> I not do this?
> I do not expect a detailed answer, at least the direction where to move.
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Best Regards, Timofey Evsyutkin
> P.H.D., Software Engineer
>
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