Improve missing entry section error message.

Fixes https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/5886

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/WixToolset.Core/Linker.cs b/src/WixToolset.Core/Linker.cs
index 3281cbd0..f5461bbc 100644
--- a/src/WixToolset.Core/Linker.cs
+++ b/src/WixToolset.Core/Linker.cs
@@ -106,7 +106,14 @@ namespace WixToolset.Core
                 // Must have found the entry section by now.
                 if (null == find.EntrySection)
                 {
-                    throw new WixException(ErrorMessages.MissingEntrySection(this.Context.ExpectedOutputType.ToString()));
+                    if (this.Context.ExpectedOutputType == OutputType.IntermediatePostLink || this.Context.ExpectedOutputType == OutputType.Unknown)
+                    {
+                        throw new WixException(ErrorMessages.MissingEntrySection());
+                    }
+                    else
+                    {
+                        throw new WixException(ErrorMessages.MissingEntrySection(this.Context.ExpectedOutputType.ToString()));
+                    }
                 }
 
                 // Add the missing standard action and directory symbols.