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Bineesh
Bineesh

Reputation: 326

Creating MSI installer with netbeans IDE 7.4

When I try to create msi installer using netbeans IDE it showed following error:cannot run program candle

I have installed wix 3.8 and added "C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v3.8\bin" to my path. still IDE shows following error:wix not installed or not in path

How can I solve the issue and create a msi installer for my javaFX app? Anyone please help.. Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3046

Answers (2)

Mashukur Rahman
Mashukur Rahman

Reputation: 98

The following line also works fine.

<contains string="${exec-output}" substring="Windows Installer XML" casesensitive="false"/>

Upvotes: 2

Adli Bazuli
Adli Bazuli

Reputation: 66

This is because the output of the candle.exe -? command is no longer match the Ant Targets -check-WiX-presence

<target name="-check-WiX-presence" depends="-check-native-bundling-type" if="need.WiX.presence">
    <local name="exec-output"/>
    <local name="exec-error"/>
    <local name="exec-result"/>
    <exec executable="candle" outputproperty="exec-output" failifexecutionfails="false" errorproperty="exec-error" resultproperty="exec-result">
        <arg value="-?"/>
    </exec>
    <echo message="exec-output:${exec-output}" level="verbose"/>
    <echo message="exec-error:${exec-error}" level="verbose"/>
    <echo message="exec-result:${exec-result}" level="verbose"/>
    <condition property="missing.WiX">
        <not><and>
            <contains string="${exec-output}" substring="Windows Installer Xml Compiler"/>
            <not><contains string="${exec-output}" substring="Windows Installer Xml Compiler version 1"/></not>
            <not><contains string="${exec-output}" substring="Windows Installer Xml Compiler version 2"/></not>
        </and></not>
    </condition>
</target>

This is what WiX 3.8 output: Windows Installer XML Toolset Compiler version 3.8.1128.0 Copyright (c) Outercurve Foundation. All rights reserved.

So fixing the condition to

<contains string="${exec-output}" substring="Windows Installer XML Toolset Compiler"/>

in build-native.xml will fix the problem.

Upvotes: 3

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