Re: [WiX-users] Please Help: HEAD0319: heat -out argument ill defined???

[Rob M. <ro...@ro...>]

First thing to chec: be very careful with trailing backslashes on quoted
paths. That can cause the Windows cmd processor to think you want the quote
escaped. Try a double backslash on your directory.

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Robert Buck <buc...@gm...>wrote:

> I have a RESTful web service that I am trying to create an installer for. I
> am publishing the artifacts to a local directory for harvesting, which
> works
> properly.
>
> However, when I exec heat passing it a number of arguments to harvest from
> the local Publish directory it fails citing I did not provide a correct
> -out
> argument.
>
> Could someone help me with this. I have tried all sorts of permutations of
> command line arguments with no success.
>
> Details below>
>
>
>  <Target Name="BeforeBuild">
>    <RemoveDir Directories="$(PublishDir)" ContinueOnError="true" />
>    <MakeDir Directories="$(PublishDir)"/>
>    <MSBuild Projects="$(SolutionDir)\Stable.Service\Stable.Service.csproj"
> Targets="ResolveReferences;_WPPCopyWebApplication"
>
> Properties="WebProjectOutputDir=$(PublishDir);Configuration=Release;Platform=AnyCPU;UseWPP_CopyWebApplication=True;PipelineDependsOnBuild=False"
> />
>    <Exec Command='"$(WixToolPath)heat" dir "$(PublishDir)" -dr MYWEBSITE
> -ke -srd -cg WebServiceComponentGroup -var var.PublishDir -gg -out
> "$(StableWebServiceFragment)"' ContinueOnError="false"
> WorkingDirectory="."/>
>  </Target>
>
>
> "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Installer XML v3.5\bin\heat" dir
>
> "C:\dev\sandboxes\stable-installer\dev\Stable.Installer.WebServices\bin\Release\Publish\"
> -dr MYWEBSITE -ke -srd -cg WebServiceComponentGroup -var var.PublishDir -gg
> -out "Fragments\WebServiceContentFragment.wxs"
> heat.exe(0,0): error HEAT0319: The '-out' or '-o' parameter must specify a
> file path.
>
> C:\dev\sandboxes\stable-installer\dev\Stable.Installer.WebServices\Stable.Installer.WebServices.wixproj(68,5):
> error MSB3073: The command ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Installer XML
> v3.5\bin\heat" dir
>
> "C:\dev\sandboxes\stable-installer\dev\Stable.Installer.WebServices\bin\Release\Publish\"
> -dr MYWEBSITE -ke -srd -cg WebServiceComponentGroup -var var.PublishDir -gg
> -out "Fragments\WebServiceContentFragment.wxs"" exited with code 319.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob
>
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