Re: compiling with VS2008

Sam Watkins wrote:

> I changed to use "trunk" instead of 1.4.x, and it does build better
> under VS2008 now, but the setup program still will not build for me, I'm
> getting the same error I had before. I'm using wix v2.
>
> I think the problem is what is described here:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg10041.html
>
> I.e. newer versions of WiX are compiled with a vista library that is
> somehow broken w.r.t some merge modules or vice versa. Something like
> that...
>
> I installed wix-2.0.4820.0-binaries.zip and the problem is fixed now.

Seems I had that version installed. I usually don't update WiX that
frequently since v2 is marked as stable.

> You might like to mention that in the install notes, or follow it up
> with the WiX developers if you want to. I guess it's probably to do
> with the GDIPLUS.msm merge module.

Since it also doesn't work with WiX v3, I decided to remove gdiplus
completely from the installer. Users on Win2k can download it directly
from Microsoft themselves if it isn't installed already.

Stefan

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