"No output from heat" when building MSI

[davidc]

In the MSI Settings->Company Name, remove the ö character and see if you are able to build the MSI.

David

[goliska]

In the MSI Settings->Company Name, remove the ö character and see if you are able to build the MSI.

David

neither that nor removing the blankspace helped

[davidc]

Are you able to create installers for psf or ps1 files? Does this error occur on all installers on this machine?

Have you tried disabling anti-virus? Maybe something is preventing the msi from creating.


David

[davidc]

The reason I suggested the character change was because it would fail to create the MSI on my test 8.1 unless I changed the company name. Otherwise I was able to build the installer without issue.

David

[goliska]

cant build msis of any file/project in pss.
can't disable Microsoft Forefront due to corporate policies.

I've not been in contact with additional packaging solution

[goliska]

did some digging..

you call MD5CryptoServiceProvider from heat.exe, which is not FIPS compliant, therefor i get an invalidoperation-exception: This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms, since i've got fips compliance enforced, again corp. policy..

I can turn it off temporarly via HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\FipsAlgorithmPolicy | Enabled:1 -> 0

and the MSIs builds as expected..

any chance of changing provider to sha or so for hashing?

[Alexander Riedel]

The MSI's are build with the WIX toolkit. You can download the source
from http://wixtoolset.org/
and roll your own version.

[goliska]

either that or if there's any convenient pre- and post- msibuild events where i can insert a oneliner to toggle the FipsAlgorithmPolicy-value via set-itemproperty?