cerbero.errors.FatalError: Fatal Error: The required packaging tool 'WiX' was not found

[Matthew Waters]

For MSVC, you need to enable the visualstudio variant as mentioned at:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/cerbero#windows-targets.

For Wix, you need to install Wix manually:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/cerbero#install-other-tools. 
You should probably also look through all of the windows-specific
README:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/cerbero#installing-minimum-requirements-on-windows.

Cheers
-Matt

On 21/7/20 2:05 pm, Ben Rush wrote:
> Two things, really. 
>
> I'm trying to get essentially a build similar to what I'd get if I
> downloaded the MSVC 64-bit (VS 2019) build from
> here: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/. I'm a little
> concerned I'm still building simply the mingw binaries. I'm
> essentially doing the following (from Windows): 
>
> ./cerbero-uninstalled -c config/win64.cbc bootstrap
>
> and then 
>
> ./cerbero-uninstalled -c config/win64.cbc package gstreamer-1.0
>
> But I'm seeing files named "libgstwebrtc.dll", etc. under
> "cerbero\build\sources\mingw_x86_64" instead of
> "cerbero\build\sources\windows_x86_64" which I would assume to be the
> location for the Visual Studio-built binaries. I'm taking instructions
> from https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/installing/building-from-source-using-cerbero.html?gi-language=c and https://www.cardinalpeak.com/build-gstreamer-on-windows-an-advanced-tutorial/. 
>
> In addition, I've installed Wix per the instructions laid out
> here: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/installing/building-from-source-using-cerbero.html?gi-language=c,
> but I'm getting the following error right at the end of the build
> process (any thoughts on debugging this? I'm so close...). I really,
> really want to get a build environment going here for Windows that'll
> produce the Visual Studio-produced binaries we use in our product so I
> can start testing some changes, etc.
>
> ...
> [(55/79) taglib -> already built]
> [(56/79) json-glib -> already built]
> [(57/79) libdv -> already built]
> [(58/79) vo-aacenc -> already built]
> [(59/79) libass -> already built]
> [(60/79) gst-plugins-bad-1.0 -> already built]
> [(61/79) lame -> already built]
> [(62/79) mpg123 -> already built]
> [(63/79) flac -> already built]
> [(64/79) wavpack -> already built]
> [(65/79) sqlite3 -> already built]
> [(66/79) libpsl -> already built]
> [(67/79) libsoup -> already built]
> [(68/79) a52dec -> already built]
> [(69/79) opencore-amr -> already built]
> [(70/79) gst-plugins-good-1.0 -> already built]
> [(71/79) gst-rtsp-server-1.0 -> already built]
> [(72/79) gst-devtools-1.0 -> already built]
> [(73/79) ffmpeg -> already built]
> [(74/79) x264 -> already built]
> [(75/79) gst-editing-services-1.0 -> already built]
> [(76/79) gst-libav-1.0 -> already built]
> [(77/79) gst-plugins-ugly-1.0 -> already built]
> [(78/79) gst-shell -> already built]
> [(79/79) vsintegration-1.0 -> already built]
> All done!
> -----> Creating package for gstreamer-1.0
> WARNING: No specific packager available for the distro version
> windows_10, using generic packager for distro windows
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "c:\users\user\desktop\repos\cerbero\cerbero\main.py", line
> 152, in run_command
>     res = commands.run(command, self.config, self.args)
>   File
> "c:\users\user\desktop\repos\cerbero\cerbero\commands\__init__.py",
> line 78, in run
>     return _commands[command].run(config, args)
>   File
> "c:\users\user\desktop\repos\cerbero\cerbero\commands\package.py",
> line 109, in run
>     pkg = packager_class(config, p, self.store)
>   File
> "c:\users\user\desktop\repos\cerbero\cerbero\packages\packager.py",
> line 63, in __new__
>     return _packagers[d][v](config, package, store)
>   File
> "c:\users\user\desktop\repos\cerbero\cerbero\packages\wix_packager.py",
> line 293, in __new__
>     return MSIPackager(config, package, store)
>   File
> "c:\users\user\desktop\repos\cerbero\cerbero\packages\wix_packager.py",
> line 156, in __init__
>     self.wix_prefix = get_wix_prefix()
>   File
> "c:\users\user\desktop\repos\cerbero\cerbero\utils\__init__.py", line
> 420, in get_wix_prefix
>     raise FatalError("The required packaging tool 'WiX' was not found")
> cerbero.errors.FatalError: Fatal Error: The required packaging tool
> 'WiX' was not found
> ***** Error running 'package' command:
> Fatal Error: The required packaging tool 'WiX' was not found
> usage: cerbero-uninstalled [-h] [-t] [--list-variants] [-v VARIANTS]
> [-c CONFIG] [-m MANIFEST] [--self-update SELF_UPDATE]
>                          
>  {add-package,add-recipe,fetch,fetch-package,bootstrap,fetch-bootstrap,buildone,build-deps,build,bundle-source,fetch-cache,gen-cache,upload-cache,check,checkpackage,debug-packages,deps,edit-cache,genlibfiles,gensdkshell,genvsprops,genxcconfig,graph,packageinfo,list,list-packages,show-config,package,rdeps,run,shell,tag,wipe}
>
> Any thoughts? 
>
>
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