Creating installer for java application on NetBeans

Question

recently i was trying to make an installer for my java app using netbeans but when i click PROJECT > PACKAGES AS > ALL INSTALLERS

JavaFX native packager requires external WiX 3.0+ tools installed and included on PATH to create MSI installer. See http://wix.sourceforge.net/ BUILD FAILED (total time: 0 seconds)

Im pretty sure i have this WiX 3.0+ tools installed and i also added it on Environment Variable (i typed command candle.exe and got the expected result...please help me with this.

Thanks,

In case you haven't after installing WiX, restart NetBeans (or Windows). Very few running applications check for updated environment variables; They take what they are given from their creator—because it could have been customized. — Tom Blodget

Héctor Espí Hernández Héctor Espí Hernández · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-07T14:31:29

I've experienced the same issue having the latest version of WIX installed (3.9) and NetBeans 7.4.

In my case this was due to a string comparison problem in the file "jfx-impl.xml" in the nbproject folder. What you have to do is editing this file (clicking on the link provided by the error message in the NetBeans output console) and changing the target "-check-WiX-presence" into this:

<target name="-check-WiX-presence" depends="-check-native-bundling-type" if="need.WiX.presence">
    <local name="exec-output"/>
    <local name="exec-error"/>
    <local name="exec-result"/>
    <exec executable="candle" outputproperty="exec-output" failifexecutionfails="false" errorproperty="exec-error" resultproperty="exec-result">
        <arg value="-?"/>
    </exec>
    <echo message="exec-output:${exec-output}" level="verbose"/>
    <echo message="exec-error:${exec-error}" level="verbose"/>
    <echo message="exec-result:${exec-result}" level="verbose"/>
    <condition property="missing.WiX">
        <not><and>
            <contains string="${exec-output}" substring="Windows Installer XML" casesensitive="false"/>
            <not><contains string="${exec-output}" substring="Windows Installer Xml Compiler version 1"/></not>
            <not><contains string="${exec-output}" substring="Windows Installer Xml Compiler version 2"/></not>
        </and></not>
    </condition>
</target>

Creating installer for java application on NetBeans

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