File bag plug-in fails when output to network share

[LarsS]

Hi,

We just upgraded one of our setup projects from IA9 to IA15. (build 12.12.12)
After upgrading it we started getting build errors regarding the "File bag" plug-in for runtimes. The error is along the lines of
"WARNING! No files matching wildcard pattern ....". For example we got it for the "setupnet4aip_x64" script. If we excluded this script we just got the error from one of the other scripts regarding runtimes.

After trying a number of things such as reinstalling IA15, copying script files from the fresh install etc. I found out what the problem is.

Under Project Settings | Output | Custom folder we are using a network UNC such as "\\10.0.1.1\SOMESHARE\Folder". Changing this to a local folder such as "C:\Test\" resolves the problem.
However using the UNC worked in IA9 so I think a bug has been introduced in a later version.

Now that we know the cause we can make a workaround, but I would like to know if you can confirm that this is indeed a problem, and if so is it something you intend to fix? If not that is fine with us, but then please add a comment to the help file stating that only local/"normal" folders can be used and not UNC.

br Lars

[FrancescoT]

Dear Lars,

honestly, I just tried and with my test environment works fine.

I used a network shared folder for my output folder as; "\\DEBUG-X64X4\testbuild".

I used the last available IA 15 update (ver. 15.2.3 build; 1.2.3) ... but I don't believe this makes any difference.

Regards

[LarsS]

Thanks for a quick reply.

Your reply made me consider what I might have forgotten about. Turns out that anti-virus was the cause. We had the IA9 miabuild.exe listed as an "Excluded process" but forgot to add the IA15 one after installing it on our build machine. Bummer

However, making the change to first output to a local folder and then copy the files to the server gave a speed increase of about 10% so I will leave that in. So at least something good came out of it

Note: In general excluding the IA .exe files from real-time antivirus protection gives a considerable speed increase. Might be worth mentioning in the help file. Expecially now where Win8 has AV installed and on as default.

Sorry for the inconveniance.

br Lars

[FrancescoT]

No problem, I'm happy that you solved.

Regards