WiX can'f find my file : unable to load file, error LGHT0103

Question

I am using WiX 3.5 and making an installer. I have used heat.exe to bundle all the files. It produced a WiX file. I referred in main wxs files as componentgroup ref. When I build my installer, it throws the following exception.

light.exe : error LGHT0103 : The system cannot find the file '..........\target\tmp-release\jboss-eap-5.0\jboss-as\server\all\deploy\httpha-invoker.sar\invoker.war\WEB-INF\classes\org\jboss\invocation\http\servlet\ReadOnlyAccessFilter.class' with type ''.

It is able load many files from this location, except the above file, even though the file is present.

Answer 1

Looks like you've hit the linker bug. As far as I can see, it was already reported to the WiX team, and was scheduled for v4.0. The comment to the issue states the path is more than 255 characters, so a possible workaround for you is to re-work the files/folders layout to avoid the paths of that length.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

The answer of Ravz1234 works ! I used it with a environment variable e.g. env.SourcePath.

1) Set an environment variable to show on your Source Dir e.g. C:\SourceDir 2) On heat.exe add the argument -var env.SourcePath along with the other arguments

Answer 3

I used the variable for the directory, sys.SOURCEFILEDIR, and it worked well.