I've recently upgraded one of my projects to build with Visual Studio 2015. I build the installer for my project using Wix and I ship the Microsoft CRT merge modules with my project. There's a known issue where light.exe can issue warnings about some of the GUIDs used in the Merge Modules shipped by Microsoft:
light.exe : warning LGHT1076: ICE03: String overflow (greater than length permitted in column); Table: File, Column: File, Key(s): api_ms_win_crt_filesystem_l1_1_0.dll.71E1EC1A_562B_3AD1_94CD_84420ED4073F [v:\VS2015\DataNow\Installer\To olsInstaller\Toolbox.wixproj] I've read that this can be a known problem with these merge modules () and that the warning is benign. However, I'd like to suppress the warnings by passing:
-sw 1076 to light.exe but I can't figure out how to pass custom parameters to light.exe using the .wixproj visual studio Wix files.
Does anyone know how this can be accomplished?
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Ahaha,
I've finally found the solution. I don't need to pass parameters to light.exe because there's a section in the .wixproj that can be used to suppress these warnings:
<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Release|x64' "> <SuppressAllWarnings>False</SuppressAllWarnings> <OutputPath>$(SolutionDir)Publish\$(Platform)\$(Configuration)\</OutputPath> <IntermediateOutputPath>obj\$(Platform)\$(Configuration)\</IntermediateOutputPath> <LinkerAdditionalOptions>"$(WixToolPath)difxapp_$(Platform).wixlib"</LinkerAdditionalOptions> <SuppressSpecificWarnings>1055;1056;1076</SuppressSpecificWarnings> <SuppressIces>ICE80;ICE82</SuppressIces> </PropertyGroup> 
