Unicode hyphen is not accepted as the start of an option on Wix 3.10 heat.exe

[earthengine]

I download and installed Wix 3.10 yesterday and found that this version no longer regards my "-srd" flag, and so always creates "Debug" or "Release" sub-folders when running Heat.exe.

I fixed this by adding the line to the filter xslt file:

  <xsl:template match="wix:Directory[@Name='Debug' or @Name='Release']">
      <xsl:apply-templates/>
   </xsl:template>

But ideally we should be able to use "-srd" option.

[barnson]

Works for me. What does your Heat.exe command line look like?

[earthengine]

Emmm... I tried that again, it seems to work again. As I didn't touch anything rather than the project settings to remove and add back the "-srd" option, it confused me. But this was reported by our team member so it is not just me to have this problem. Let us keep an eye on this.

[earthengine]

After further careful check on our git history, it seems that the old Wix (3.9 or earlier) heat.exe recognize the Unicode hyphen (U+2212) as the start of an option. But the 3.10 version does not.

Our original command line, was copied from some online blog and only made minimum changes for our project. However, nobody noticed there is a different hyphen (and it was the only one of all 10 hyphens in the command line).

Can you find the difference of the hyphens?

  –srd -o

:)

[barnson]

Nobody during triage was excited about the feature but we'd consider such a change if someone did the work and it wasn't too disruptive to the command-line parsing.

[bsktcase]

OMG! This is exactly the problem I was having. I'll bet my predecessor copied from the same blog. Whether it ever gets fixed or not, bless you for posting the question - I don't think I would have spotted that errant hyphen in a million years. :)