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Nilaksha Perera
Nilaksha Perera

Reputation: 725

WIX project fails building in X64 platform

I have a project that includes a windows installed XML project that builds an MSI. This source works fine in 32 bit platform computers where you can build the solution easily. But when trying to build the source in 64 bit platform computers an error occurs in WIX project. Following is the error.

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What makes WIX project throw this error ? Do WIX support 64 bit MSI creation ? ( I'm using Visual Studio 2012 )

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1700

Answers (1)

Kaiser12
Kaiser12

Reputation: 621

WiX supports creating a 64 bit MSI, however you have to alter the csproj file for WiX if you are using the WiX projects created by the WiX toolset. Where normal projects would let you open properties and set the Platform, the WiX projects do not, through the GUI anyways.

Below will allow the project to compile in x64 (I don't support x86, so I don't setup both).

<Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration>
<Platform Condition=" '$(Platform)' == '' ">x64</Platform>

<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|x64' ">
<OutputPath>bin\$(Configuration)\</OutputPath>
<IntermediateOutputPath>obj\$(Configuration)\</IntermediateOutputPath>
<DefineConstants>Debug</DefineConstants>
</PropertyGroup>

<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Release|x64' ">
<OutputPath>bin\$(Configuration)\</OutputPath>
<IntermediateOutputPath>obj\$(Configuration)\</IntermediateOutputPath>
</PropertyGroup>

Upvotes: 4

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