Failed to bundle project: error running candle.exe

Hey there,

two days ago building tauri for win64 on github works like charme. But since yesterday evening i get:

Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 16m 58s
        Info Verifying wix package
 Downloading https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix3/releases/download/wix3112rtm/wix311-binaries.zip
        Info validating hash
        Info extracting WIX
        Info Target: x64
     Running candle for "main.wxs"
failed to bundle project: error running candle.exe: error running candle.exe: ``

Seems like this occurs even when directly running “tauri build”.

Any ideas?

[FabianLars]

Yep, wix only supports numeric versions, so there’s nothing we can do here 😕

it is possible to add the verbose flag to the tauri github action?

Yeah it has a undocumented args property, so you can add args: '--verbose' and it should work.

[KillerCodeMonkey]

nice and thanks for your blazing fast response.

I added some additional info to the title. If anybody is stumbling with semver + special channels in versions my solution is to just use https://github.com/actions/github-script and make some little string replacements and after that setting a “cleaned” version in the tauri.conf.json.

In general i came to this, because of this bug: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri-action/issues/262

I wanted to get my version from package.json in the tauri.conf.json during build. So i added the package.json path in the tauri config for the version field. But it does not work with the github action.

I ended in something like that:

jobs:
  ...

  build-windows:
    needs: [create-release]

    runs-on: windows-latest

    strategy:
      matrix:
        node-version: [16.x]
    
    steps:
      ...

      - uses: actions/github-script@v6
        id: get-wix-compatible-version
        env:
          VERSION: ${{needs.create-release.outputs.version}}
        with:
          result-encoding: string
          script: |
            return process.env.VERSION.replace(/-.*(\.\d+)$/, '$1').replace(/^v/, '')
      - name: Fix version in tauri.config | https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri-action/issues/262
        run: |
          npm i --save-dev replace-in-file
          npx replace-in-file ../package.json ${{steps.get-wix-compatible-version.outputs.result}} src-tauri\tauri.conf.json

       ...

The script replaces additional suffixes at the version, but requires that those nightly, beta, what ever version end with .[0-9]+, so we get a valid fourth place in the wix version.

if you have a “tag” as version then remove the leading “v” in the version

E.g. Version v1.2.3-lorem-ipsum.4 gets to 1.2.3.4

Greetings 😃