wixlight

WiX Light.exe outputs "LGHT0204 : ICE80: This 32BitComponent [component name] uses 64BitDirectory [directory name]" for every wxs component

During the creation of an msi file with Light.exe (without Visual Studio), I got a warning for every wxs component in my project. The errors looked like this:

C:\path\WXS.wxs(10) : error LGHT0204 : ICE80: This 32BitComponent [component name] uses 64BitDirectory [directory name]

As far as I could tell, there were no 32 bit components among the files and Platform='x64' was set in the base wxs file.

Tried drinking coffe and crying to very little effect.

Solution

  • Solved using the recommendation of: https://wixtoolset.org/docs/v3/xsd/wix/package/

    The description of the package suggested the usage of the "-arch" switch directly with light.exe instead of specifying it with the Platform attribute.