Wix command not recognised (Wix toolset 3.11.2 is installed)

Ground Control Software Mission Planner
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@Michael_Oborne I’m trying to make a Mission Planner MSI but Wix is playing funny buggers.
The build went fine in VS. I built Mission Planner and Wix solutions.

When I install Wix toolset 3.11.2 using the exe from here,

The 'Mission Planner/msi/install bash script errs, saying ‘wix’ is not a valid command. I made sure to add the Wix install folder to my path, but looking in the install folder, there is no executable called ‘wix’.

I tried installing Wix with dotnet tool. That installs 5.0.1. Now the bash script identifies the ‘wix’ command, but it throws unexpected argument ‘…/bin/release’

Am I missing something?

Bonus question:
In the meantime I made an installer using WinRAR, which works great, but I’m guessing this only works because I already have the SiK radio drivers installed. Would it not work on a fresh computer, or would the WinRAR installer grab those drivers too?

Thanks in advance!
Patrick

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in Mission Planner source root run build.bat
then go to msi folder
run installer.bat
run create.bat

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Hmm, when I run ‘installer.bat’ after running ‘build.bat’ it still says ‘wix.exe’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.’ , and never creates ‘create.bat’

This is a screenshot of the terminal after running ‘build.bat’, does this provide any insight?

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did you add wix to the path ?

C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v3.14\bin\x86
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I’ve put that folder in the path, but there’s no executable called Wix in that folder

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I installed 3.11.2. should I use 3.14?

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3.14 yes
If wix.exe is not found the build did not built it.
With the path set try build again.

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I cleaned and built again with C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v3.14\bin\x86 in the path, and it still didn’t work, but then I noticed that the output from building the wix solution in VS had the following lines:

 Build started: Project: wix, Configuration: Release Any CPU ------
1>wix -> C:\Users\Patrick\Documents\MissionPlanner\Msi\net472\wix.exe
========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

So I added that to my path, and now everything works! I built an MSI and installed it, and it works great, thanks for your help!