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Stephen Currah stephen.currah at gmail.com
Wed Mar 16 01:31:37 PDT 2022



> On 15 Mar 2022, at 18:47, Coryat, Jim via wix-users <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
> 
> Pulling out what hair I have left on this one.
> 
> Setup a bundle to include dot net 4.8 and a wix installer msi that already existed.
> 
> After hunting around and reviewing the wix2010.targets file I deduced all I should have to do is add the <SignOutput>true</SignOutput> to the bundle wixproj file.  I did this and it invokes the targets necessary for signing, however what is happening is that the input parameter is getting a value of the path of the target bundle to sign, duplicated with a semi-colon separating them.  The property is SignTargetPath which looks like it gets explicitly set
> Around line 305 in wix2010.targets file.
> 
>  <ItemGroup>
>    <SignTargetPath Include="$(TargetPath)" Condition=" '$(OutputType)' == 'Bundle' AND '$(SignOutput)' == 'true' AND '$(SuppressLayout)' != 'true' " />
>  </ItemGroup>
> 
> Walking backwards from this is where the value of TargetPath is set:
> 
>  <PropertyGroup>
>    <!-- Example, c:\MyProjects\MySetup\bin\debug\ -->
>    <!--
>    Condition intentionally omitted on this one, because it causes problems
>    when we pick up the value of an environment variable named TargetDir
>    -->
>    <TargetDir Condition="'$(OutDir)' != ''">$([System.IO.Path]::GetFullPath(`$([System.IO.Path]::Combine(`$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)`, `$(OutDir)`))`))</TargetDir>
>    <TargetPdbDir Condition=" '$(PdbOutputPath)'!='' ">$([System.IO.Path]::GetFullPath(`$([System.IO.Path]::Combine(`$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)`, `$(PdbOutputPath)`))`))</TargetPdbDir>
> 
>    <!-- Example, C:\MyProjects\MySetup\bin\debug\MySetup.msi -->
>    <TargetPath Condition=" '$(TargetPath)' == '' ">$(TargetDir)$(TargetFileName)</TargetPath>
>    <TargetPdbPath Condition=" '$(TargetPdbPath)' == '' ">$(TargetPdbDir)$(TargetPdbName)</TargetPdbPath>
>  </PropertyGroup>
> 
> I'm not seeing where the SignTargetPath is getting set this way. Here is the log snippet specifically for this:
> 
> Target "GetContainersToSign" in file "C:\dev\ExchangePlatform3\Sources\3rdParty\Wix\v3.14\Sdk\wix2010.targets" from project "C:\dev\ExchangePlatform3\Sources\Setup\SPX\ClientSetup\ClientBundle\ClientBundle.wixproj" (target "Signing" depends on it):
> Building target "GetContainersToSign" completely.
> Output file "obj\Debug\ClientBundle.wixproj.Signed.txt" does not exist.
> Done building target "GetContainersToSign" in project "ClientBundle.wixproj".
> Target "InternalSignContainers" skipped, due to false condition; ( '@(SignContainers)' != '' ) was evaluated as ( '' != '' ).
> Target "PrepareForBuild" skipped. Previously built successfully.
> Target "ResolveWixExtensionReferences" skipped. Previously built successfully.
> Target "CompileAndLink" skipped. Previously built successfully.
> Target "InternalSignContainers" skipped, due to false condition; ( '@(SignContainers)' != '' ) was evaluated as ( '' != '' ).
> Target "InscribeBundleEngine" in file "C:\dev\ExchangePlatform3\Sources\3rdParty\Wix\v3.14\Sdk\wix2010.targets" from project "C:\dev\ExchangePlatform3\Sources\Setup\SPX\ClientSetup\ClientBundle\ClientBundle.wixproj" (target "Signing" depends on it):
> Building target "InscribeBundleEngine" completely.
> Output file "obj\Debug\ClientBundle.wixproj.Signed.txt" does not exist.
> Using "Insignia" task from assembly "C:\dev\ExchangePlatform3\Sources\3rdParty\Wix\v3.14\Bin\WixTasks.dll".
> Task "Insignia"
>  Task Parameter:OutputFile=obj\Debug\SoftPro360Client.exe
> C:\dev\ExchangePlatform3\Sources\3rdParty\Wix\v3.14\Sdk\wix2010.targets(2176,9): error MSB4094: "C:\dev\ExchangePlatform3\Layouts\Debug\SPX\AgentClient\SoftPro360Client.exe;C:\dev\ExchangePlatform3\Layouts\Debug\SPX\AgentClient\SoftPro360Client.exe" is an invalid value for the "BundleFile" parameter of the "Insignia" task. Multiple items cannot be passed into a parameter of type "Microsoft.Build.Framework.ITaskItem". [C:\dev\ExchangePlatform3\Sources\Setup\SPX\ClientSetup\ClientBundle\ClientBundle.wixproj]
> Done executing task "Insignia" -- FAILED.
> Done building target "InscribeBundleEngine" in project "ClientBundle.wixproj" -- FAILED.
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