stephen.bryant1.5524931754806357E12 asked a question.
InstallShield LE Warning 6249 inconsistency between Visual Studio and MSBuild
I have a Visual Studio 2015 Solution that contains an InstallShield LE installer project.
When this Solution is built on my development machine it works without error and with a single warning that is not relevant to this post (warning -6245 if you’re interested). The installer from this build process will successfully install the necessary libraries into the GAC without complaint when run on a target computer – I didn’t even know this might be an issue until I tried to perform integration with our build server.
When I try to build the Solution on our build server (using MSBuild) the build still completes without error however there are multiple warnings above and beyond warning -6245. These are all warning -6249: “[blah] is configured to install to the Global Assembly Cache but includes one or more subdirectories”.
I would like to know why the Visual Studio / MSBuild build processes for InstallShield might be different, and how I can resolve this such that the MSBuild builds the InstallShield project in the same way the Visual Studio builds to the InstallShield project.
Development machine:
Visual Studio Professional 2015: 14.0.25123.00 Update 2
InstallShield Limited Edition: no version info readily available other than '2015'
Build server:
MSBuild: 14.0 (build engine 14.0.23107.0)
InstallShield Limited Edition: Maybe 22.0.1.0 / 22.00.1
Note: I previously posted this on this main InstallShield 2015 forum, where it received no responses (https://community.flexerasoftware.com/showthread.php?222407-Warning-6249-inconsistency-between-Visual-Studio-and-MSBuild ). I hope that this is now in the correct place...
This error may be specific to the full Professional/Premier editions of InstallShield, where the user can directly edit components. ISLE creates components automatically according to best practices and I suspect this prevents this scenario from coming up.