Question

I know this a is a common issue, but everything I can find in the forums seems to relate to 64bit framework incompatability (which is not an issue in my case).

I have a set of simple WIX 3.5 installers developed using Votive that I can compile happily in VS2010, but when I try to compile them via NAnt (and MSBuild) on TeamCity (i.e. TeamCity -> Nant -> MSBuild -> WIX) I get the following error:

 [exec] Project file contains ToolsVersion="4.0", which is not supported by this 
            version of MSBuild. Treating the project as if it had ToolsVersion="3.5".
 [exec] Compile:
 [exec]   Microsoft (R) Windows Installer Xml Compiler version 3.5.2006.0
 [exec]   Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
 [exec]
 [exec]   Product.wxs
 [exec]   Product.Generated.wxs
 [exec] Link:
 [exec]   Microsoft (R) Windows Installer Xml Linker version 3.5.2006.0
 [exec]   Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
 [exec]
 [exec] light.exe : error LGHT0001: Unable to load DLL 'winterop.dll': The specified module 
           could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)
 [exec]
 [exec]   Exception Type: System.DllNotFoundException
 [exec]
 [exec]   Stack Trace:
 [exec]      at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Cab.Interop.NativeMethods.ExtractCabBegin()
 [exec]      at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Binder.BindDatabase(Output output, String databaseFile)
 [exec]      at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Binder.Bind(Output output, String file)
 [exec]      at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Light.Run(String[] args)
 [exec] Done Building Project "c:\dev2\ad3\utilities\Installers\Database\Database.wixproj" (default targets) -- FAILED.
 [exec] Done Building Project "c:\dev2\ad3\AgentDesktop3.1.sln" (default targets) -- FAILED.
 [exec]
 [exec] Build FAILED.
 [exec]
 [exec] "c:\dev2\ad3\AgentDesktop3.1.sln" (default target) (1) ->
 [exec] "c:\dev2\ad3\utilities\InstallerService\InstallerService.csproj" (default target) (5) ->
 [exec] (ResolveAssemblyReferences target) ->
 [exec]   C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\Microsoft.Common.targets
            : warning MSB3088: Could not read state file
            "obj\Release\ResolveAssemblyReference.cache". Unable to find assembly
            'Microsoft.Build.Tasks.v4.0, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
            PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'.
 [exec]
 [exec]
 [exec] "c:\dev2\ad3\AgentDesktop3.1.sln" (default target) (1) ->
 [exec] "c:\dev2\ad3\utilities\Installers\Database\Database.wixproj" (default target) (6) ->
 [exec] (Link target) ->
 [exec]   light.exe : error LGHT0001: Unable to load DLL 'winterop.dll': The specified 
              module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)
 [exec]
 [exec]     1 Warning(s)
 [exec]     1 Error(s)
 [exec]
 [exec] Time Elapsed 00:00:05.92

 BUILD FAILED

Any ideas?

Answer 1

We had a similar issue when building using Team Build (2010). We ended up doing a filemon (its called processmonitor these days) for winterop.dll on one of our build agents to see where it was expected.

We ended up adding the bin folder of the wix installation in our path and suddenly winterop.dll was found.