'devbuild' process failing

[mosBrkr]

Hey guys

I tried to build the WiX Toolset v4 following the description in the README but unfortunately I get several warnings and errors during the build process:

...\wix4\src\internal\WixInternal.BaseBuildTasks.Sources\WixInternal.BaseBuildTasks.Sources.csproj : error NU1604: Project dependency Microsoft.SourceLink.GitHub does not contain an inclusive lower bound.
Include a lower bound in the dependency version to ensure consistent restore results.

...\wix4\src\internal\WixInternal.TestSupport\WixInternal.TestSupport.csproj : error NU1604: Project dependency Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Core does not contain an inclusive lower bound. Include a lower bound in the dependency version to ensure consistent restore results. [TargetFramework=netstandard2.0]

...\wix4\src\internal\WixInternal.TestSupport\WixInternal.TestSupport.csproj : error NU1604: Project dependency Microsoft.SourceLink.GitHub does not contain an inclusive lower bound. Include a lower bound in the dependency version to ensure consistent restore results. [TargetFramework=netstandard2.0]

...\wix4\src\internal\WixInternal.TestSupport\WixInternal.TestSupport.csproj : error NU1604: Project dependency WixToolset.Dtf.Compression does not contain an inclusive lower bound. Include a lower bound in the dependency version to ensure consistent restore results. [TargetFramework=netstandard2.0]

...\wix4\src\internal\WixInternal.TestSupport\WixInternal.TestSupport.csproj : error NU1604: Project dependency WixToolset.Dtf.Compression.Cab does not contain an inclusive lower bound. Include a lower bound in the dependency version to ensure consistent restore results. [TargetFramework=netstandard2.0]

...\wix4\src\internal\WixInternal.TestSupport\WixInternal.TestSupport.csproj : error NU1604: Project dependency WixToolset.Dtf.WindowsInstaller does not contain an inclusive lower bound. Include a lower bound in the dependency version to ensure consistent restore results. [TargetFramework=netstandard2.0]

...\wix4\src\internal\WixInternal.TestSupport\WixInternal.TestSupport.csproj : error NU1604: Project dependency xunit does not contain an inclusive lower bound. Include a lower bound in the dependency version to ensure consistent restore results. [TargetFramework=netstandard2.0]

...\wix4\src\internal\WixInternal.TestSupport\WixInternal.TestSupport.csproj : error NU1701: Package 'xunit 1.7.0.1540' was restored using '.NETFramework,Version=v4.6.1, .NETFramework,Version=v4.6.2, .NET Framework,Version=v4.7, .NETFramework,Version=v4.7.1, .NETFramework,Version=v4.7.2, .NETFramework,Version=v4.8, .NETFramework,Version=v4.8.1' instead of the project target framework '.NETStandard,Version=v2.0'. This package may not be fully compatible with your project. [TargetFramework=netstandard2.0]

Followed by a lot of compiler errors in that project ('WixInternal.TestSupport') about unknown type- or namespacenames.

Do you have an idea what could cause this issue?

One small difference I have seen is that the MSVC v143 - VS 2022 C++ ARM64 build tools (Latest) shows up as MSVC v143 - VS 2022 C++ ARM64/ARM64EC build tools (Latest) in Visual Studio 2022 - 17.5.3 (already mentioned here: #7331 (comment))

[robmen]

My first guess is that your build tooling is missing support for Central Package Management.

[mosBrkr]

Looks like a perfect guess 🙂

I had to put the directory to the downloaded nuget.exe command-line-tool in front of my dotnet installation on the path.

Now the build finished successfully

Thanks for the quick help!

[chrpai]

I just reverifyed the README.md instructions on a clean machine with the latest release of VS and all the component names are still correct. I copy and pasted each into the search to confim.