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WiX should work with >MAX_PATH paths #4365

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wixbot opened this issue Mar 27, 2014 · 4 comments
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WiX should work with >MAX_PATH paths #4365

wixbot opened this issue Mar 27, 2014 · 4 comments

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@wixbot
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wixbot commented Mar 27, 2014

.NET doesn't support long file names. Fixing this would require abstracting all the i/o and P/Invoke-ing to Win32 equivalents.

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@wixbot wixbot added this to the v3.x milestone Dec 20, 2015
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Jaxsun commented Nov 2, 2016

It looks like .NET recently discarded the MAX_PATH constraint.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/08/02/announcing-net-framework-4-6-2/#bcl

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robmen commented Nov 2, 2016

Yes. Now we just need Windows to fix the MSI APIs MAX_PATH limitations.

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Jaxsun commented Nov 3, 2016

Good to know, thanks for the update Rob.

@rseanhall
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We did everything we could to enable long path support in .NET and Windows in WiX v4.0 for #5314.

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