[WiX-users] LGHT0204 error when string contains '\'

Karl Denning

2009-03-30 16:16:54 UTC

This is expected behavior.
Only one directory per Directory table record is permitted. You are trying to specify two.

Hi,

I'm using WiX version 3.0.4513.0. Our installer allows for a .wxl-
specified installation location using the following tagset:

<String Id="IDS_INSTALLDIR">InstallLocation</String>

where InstallLocation is a relative directory to be used for the
installation path.

I'm getting the following error when running light.exe if I provide an
install location with a backslash in it:

error LGHT0204 : ICE03: Invalid DefaultDir string; Table: Directory,
Column: DefaultDir, Key(s): INSTALLDIR

The tagset in this case looks like this:

<String Id="IDS_INSTALLDIR">dir1\dir2</String>

Maybe I'm blind, but I did look through the issue tracker for other
issues like this and didn't find any. I'm wondering, is this a known
issue? Has it been fixed in a later release? Or is this behavior
intentional - and if so, how should we specify nested directories for
our default installation directory? I'd like to know before I start
digging into the light.exe code.

--
Matt Ryan
Development Lead, Windows Client
***@decho.com

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