OK I think I know the cause for the discrepancy in the wxs code generation on your and my machines. My build script is located on a non-system partition thus the paths cannot be converted in relative and the compiler falls back to the absolute paths. However in your case most likely you are running your script from the system partition (c:\ drive) and the font directory from the same partition is resolved into relative path as expected. This default behavior can be overwritten with
Compiler.EmitRelativePaths = false;.
This is what I did for further testing. I just created the project from VS WixSharp template and only added a single line of code without even modifying the project items:
var project =
new Project("MyProduct",
new Dir(@"%ProgramFiles%\My Company\My Product",
new File("readme.txt")),
//next is the new test codenew Dir("%Fonts%", new FontFile(@"C:\Windows\Fonts\arial.ttf")));This code emits (as it should) relative paths"
<ComponentId="Component.arial.ttf"Guid="6fe30b47-2577-43ad-9095-186133ca6a46"><FileId="arial.ttf"Source="..\..\..\..\..\..\..\Windows\Fonts\arial.ttf"TrueType="yes"/></Component>
Though in my case this relative path is a correct one. Thus the following simple check from the script:
Console.WriteLine("Path test: " + System.IO.Path.GetFullPath(@"..\..\..\..\..\..\..\Windows\Fonts\arial.ttf"));
project.BuildMsi();Yields the expected output:
------ Build started: Project: WixSharp Setup12, Configuration: Debug Any CPU ------
WixSharp Setup12 -> C:\Users\<user>\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\WixSharp Setup12\WixSharp Setup12\bin\Debug\WixSharp Setup.exe
Building MSI
Path test: C:\Windows\Fonts\arial.ttf
All this means that there is no obvious reason for the emitted relative path on your PC to be wrong so let's verify that it is indeed wrong. Can you please put the same path test in your code and verify the output?
I agree, the production build will have to source the font file not from the
Fonts folder but from the source control thus you are not affected by this problem. But I really want to see what causes (if indeed it does) the error in your environment as it may indicate the actual problem with the compiler.
Thank you
