Has anybody been using WiX with 2010? I'm not able to get my install projects to work in 2010 and I can't find any info on getting this to work/future plans for support.
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which version of Wix are you using? last I checked, there was some compatibility issues with wix >=3, votive, and visual studio.
you might have to get a custom build of votive that will load on 2010.
Oren Mazor
2009-10-26 18:39:02
Tried the latest official version, but that won't install if you don't have 2k5 or 2k8 installed.
Will
2009-10-26 18:43:22
@Will: you need the 3.5 release for 2010 support - it's still in beta.
Jeff Yates
2009-10-26 18:43:58
Ya. Added an answer with what I did to get it working. Tanks.
Will
2009-10-26 19:03:48
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Try installing the latest build of WiX 3.5. This is the version that supports VS2010. I don't know if it has been updated for the beta2 release, but there was a new one built 3 days ago.
EDIT: The link above will not work for Visual Studio 2010 post-Beta. For later releases of Visual Studio 2010, use the latest release:
http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/
and select the latest version.
Jeff Yates
2009-10-26 18:44:54
I didn't remove the old link as the question from the PO states the beta version of Visual Studio. However this tripped me up in my quest, so hopefully it will help those in the future. :)
Russell
2010-05-19 23:32:15
You will also need to install the Project Aggregator 2: http://wix.sourceforge.net/votive.html
Russell
2010-05-19 23:33:24
@Russell: The project aggregator is not required for 2010 - that was for 2005 only.
Jeff Yates
2010-05-20 12:52:29
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As of October 26, this is what I had to do to get it working:
Download latest of 3.5 http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.5.1023.0/
I snagged Wix35_x64.msi, you grab the other if you run 32bit. I'm not sure what the other (less obvious) files are for (I'm looking at you, ProjectAggregator2).
After installation, Wix projects load (yay!) but don't build (boo) with an error about the path for Candle.EXE being invalid. Apparently, its still looking for "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Installer XML v3" on my system.
Created this directory and copied the contents of "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Installer XML v35" into it.
Now, apart from some build errors due to changes in some of the $vars, it works.
Will
2009-10-26 19:12:31
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We added support for Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 in last Friday's build. See http://www.joyofsetup.com/2009/10/30/wix-v3-5-supports-visual-studio-2010-beta-2/.
Bob Arnson
2009-11-06 00:23:39