[WiX-users] Question regarding the attribute Win64 in Component

2008-10-28 Thread MAKARAND HAZARIKA
Hello everyone, Can I use the attribute Win64 in the Component for 32 bit applications? I read that Win64 attribute is applicable for both 32 and 64 bit. Thanks and Regards, Makarand - This SF.Net email is

Re: [WiX-users] Detecting IA64 bit architecture

2008-10-28 Thread Jeremy Farrell
From: Andy2k8 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any property that i can use to detect itanium 64 bit architecture and abort the installation? Intel64 - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372396(VS.85).aspx -

[WiX-users] Custom Action

2008-10-28 Thread Peter Vestergaard
Hi. I have created a installer with a custom dialog appearing after the progress dialog, just before the exit dialog(I am using the InstallDir dialog set). The custom dialog contains a checkbox, and I would like to execute a custom action if the checkbox is checked. But is that possible when the

[WiX-users] Simple question on settings permissions on folder

2008-10-28 Thread Eitan Behar
Hi, I am setting permissions of a folder, but I would like to preserve the default permissions and only append a user. The code below remove all default permisions and set only the user I defined. How can I set permissions to a folder without removing the default permissions? Thanks, Eitan

Re: [WiX-users] Updating multiple versions of a product

2008-10-28 Thread Pally Sandher
1 - Yes it is the correct way but fix your order tags the src tag is deprecated, use SourceFile instead. If you have one TargetImage your patch will only update that version nothing else. 2 - This is a mailing list where people voluntarily offer their help. Sending a bump 40 minutes after

Re: [WiX-users] Question regarding the attribute Win64 in Component

2008-10-28 Thread Pally Sandher
Yes but you will get an ICE80 error when compiling if you set Win64=yes on a component when your MSI is an x86 build vice-versa. Why would you want to? Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment and IT Administrator T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com

Re: [WiX-users] Detecting IA64 bit architecture

2008-10-28 Thread Andy2k8
Mine is a 32 bit package..so i wonder if i can specify Intel64 in the TemplateSummary.. Msix64 seems to be a better solution J. J. Farrell wrote: From: Andy2k8 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any property that i can use to detect itanium 64 bit architecture and abort the

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action

2008-10-28 Thread Pally Sandher
It must be possible as all WiXUI have an optional checkbox on the ExitDialog which runs a ShellExec Custom Action if checked. Have you looked at using this instead of authoring a separate dialog? In the documentation look under the How To Guides Section. The page title is How To: Run the Installed

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action

2008-10-28 Thread Sébastien Mouren
2008/10/28 Peter Vestergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi. I have created a installer with a custom dialog appearing after the progress dialog, just before the exit dialog(I am using the InstallDir dialog set). The custom dialog contains a checkbox, and I would like to execute a custom action if the

Re: [WiX-users] Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 Error

2008-10-28 Thread Sébastien Mouren
2008/10/28 Romeo Salayo Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My objective was to create a short path of the INSTALLDIR after install files to be used by other custom action to execute an executable. Your suggestion will search registry during AppSearch and will not create a short path of the INSTALLDIR

Re: [WiX-users] Launch condition on patch not working

2008-10-28 Thread Sébastien Mouren
2008/10/27 cemiles [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My situation is I want a launch condition to fire off if the product has yet to be installed (it's a regsearch to look for any other related products). If the product gets installed, I want to make it so the launch condition doesn't fire off on

Re: [WiX-users] Simple question on settings permissions on folder

2008-10-28 Thread Sébastien Mouren
2008/10/28 Eitan Behar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I am setting permissions of a folder, but I would like to preserve the default permissions and only append a user. The code below remove all default permisions and set only the user I defined. How can I set permissions to a folder without

Re: [WiX-users] Detecting IA64 bit architecture

2008-10-28 Thread Pally Sandher
Just create a Launch Condition with VersionNT64 AND Intel64 as the inner text. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372497(VS.85).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369553(VS.85).aspx Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment and IT Administrator T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action

2008-10-28 Thread Peter Vestergaard
Thanks for your reply. What do you mean by sequence it. I placed my custom dialog between progress and exit dialogs. I follwed Pally's advise and did this: Publish Dialog=MyExitDialog Control=Finish Event=DoAction Value=MyCustomActionCHECKBOXVALUE = 1 /Publish The custom action is launched, but

Re: [WiX-users] Question regarding the attribute Win64 in Component

2008-10-28 Thread Michael Owings
Pally Sandher wrote: Yes but you will get an ICE80 error when compiling if you set Win64=yes on a component when your MSI is an x86 build vice-versa. Why would you want to? If you install mixed 32 and 64-bit components in a single install? We have an installer that MUST do this. What

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action

2008-10-28 Thread Sébastien Mouren
2008/10/28 Peter Vestergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks for your reply. What do you mean by sequence it. Place it in the sequential UI flow. I placed my custom dialog between progress and exit dialogs. I follwed Pally's advise and did this: Publish Dialog=MyExitDialog Control=Finish

Re: [WiX-users] Simple question on settings permissions on folder

2008-10-28 Thread Eitan Behar
Thanks ! Seek and thou shall find ! On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Sébastien Mouren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Search the list, it was already asked and answered. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move

Re: [WiX-users] Question regarding the attribute Win64 in Component

2008-10-28 Thread Christopher Karper
If you need a mixed installer, then you have to make it a 64 bit installer. It doesn't make sense to install 64 bit components on a 32 bit system anyway, so just don't include those components in your 32 bit installer, or alternately, don't offer a 32 bit installer. In some corporate

Re: [WiX-users] Question regarding the attribute Win64 in Component

2008-10-28 Thread Michael Owings
Hmmm -- I guess my question is -- what am I risking? Getting rid of the 32-bit installer is a non-starter for us (this isn't a corporate environment), and the 32-bit mixed installer works perfectly in both environments. (Our 64-bit components don't actually take up much room). A single

Re: [WiX-users] Question regarding the attribute Win64 in Component

2008-10-28 Thread Simon Dahlbacka
The gotcha is that you cannot have a 32 bit installer install 64 bit components. On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Michael Owings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm -- I guess my question is -- what am I risking? Getting rid of the 32-bit installer is a non-starter for us (this isn't a corporate

Re: [WiX-users] Question regarding the attribute Win64 in Component

2008-10-28 Thread Christopher Karper
MSI doesn't support a single installer for multiple architectures. That's the problem. You'll never get a 32bit installer to validate with 64 bit components in it, period. MSI requires that you build a single installer for each architecture you target. You can use conditional statements and

[WiX-users] I know nested installs are strongly discouraged, but...

2008-10-28 Thread DE�K JAHN, G�bor
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:13:21 + (GMT), Andrew Kendall wrote: Andrew, extracting file to install this utility on the users system at the same time as our main application. No, it's not strongly discouraged, it is simply not supported and impossible, plain and simple.. :-) Use a

Re: [WiX-users] vc9 mergemodule and long uninstallation times

2008-10-28 Thread Jon W
Yeah, I thought the only workaround would to be to use a bootstrapper...guess I need to look into those and see what works. Let me know if you have any suggestions or preferences. Thank you, Jon On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Bryan Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have also experienced this

Re: [WiX-users] Question regarding the attribute Win64 inComponent

2008-10-28 Thread Pally Sandher
If your MSI is built for x86 (i.e. Platform = Intel) try as you may, you will *not* be able to access the 64-bit system directories ProgramFiles64Folder, System64Folder or CommonFiles64Folder. You may get an MSI to build even look as though it installs but it won't ever access these areas. When

Re: [WiX-users] Question regarding the attribute Win64 inComponent

2008-10-28 Thread Michael Owings
A mixed install will *always* be unavoidable for us. Some of our components are plugins for other applications -- which may themselves be 32-bit or 64-bit (even on a 64-bit platform, a 32-bit app could be in use, or a particular app may ONLY be 32-bit), which requires the plugins built for the

[WiX-users] error LGHT0217 - The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed

2008-10-28 Thread Ian Elliott (Excell Data Corporation)
Hi, We've recently seen the following error sometimes in builds. When we retry the build leg, the error disappears. We've caught the error on different build machines with different products where 3.0/2.0 wix are used. Product with 3.0 wix: 1errors in directory

Re: [WiX-users] Question regarding the attribute Win64 inComponent

2008-10-28 Thread Bryan Turner
One approach to this that I have seen work is where you have one .wxs file that generates both a 32-bit and a 64-bit .msi through conditional logic. You then wrap both the 32-bit and 64-bit .msi in a bootstrapper that determines the correct .msi to install at runtime. The bootstrapper can be

[WiX-users] A new chainer / UI Handler

2008-10-28 Thread Jim Stout
Hi, I just uploaded a pre-release build of a new UI Handler that might be of interest to WiX folk. Details are here: http://www.acmedigitalwidgets.com/blog/ I'd appreciate any and all feedback. Thanks, Jim Stout - This

[WiX-users] Upgrading multiple versions of a product

2008-10-28 Thread Alex Schearer
Hi again, I'm running into trouble when I'm trying to install/remove/install a patch which applies to multiple versions of a product. Here's a snippet from the WXS for the patch in question: (Imagine I'm upgrading product Foo to version C. Version A and B exist in the wild.)

Re: [WiX-users] error LGHT0217 - The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed

2008-10-28 Thread Rob Mensching
If there are issues they are in the Windows Installer since they provide the tool for validation. -Original Message- From: Ian Elliott (Excell Data Corporation) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 08:49 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] error

Re: [WiX-users] error LGHT0217 - The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed

2008-10-28 Thread Ian Elliott (Excell Data Corporation)
I thought as much but got no response from the Windows Installer team after inquiry. I'm curious to know, however, if any other parties on the Wix alias are experiencing the same issue. -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008

[WiX-users] Error 2769: Custom Action Install did not close 1 MSIHANDLEs.

2008-10-28 Thread Dave Largen
I'm running a WIX install on a Vista box and I get the below error when I run a custom action. The action runs fine on an XP box. I am running the installer with elevated privileges from an administrator account. Does anyone have an idea what could be causing this. I am running build

Re: [WiX-users] Error 2769: Custom Action Install did not close 1 MSIHANDLEs.

2008-10-28 Thread Rob Mensching
Almost always, that message means the CustomAction crashed... unless your code always leaks handles. -Original Message- From: Dave Largen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:10 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Error 2769: Custom Action

Re: [WiX-users] Error 2769: Custom Action Install did not close 1 MSIHANDLEs.

2008-10-28 Thread Dave Largen
Very strange, I put a little messagebox popup after the very last line of my custom action Install call and it went all the way through without exceptions and showed my custom message. I also get this very nice empty dialog box that pops up at the end. -Original Message- From: Rob

[WiX-users] 3 problems with integration of WiX and VS2005 SP1

2008-10-28 Thread Curtis Jewell
1. I'm trying to write a custom action, and bug 2166658 is hitting me despite upgrading to 3.0.4624 - I'm still getting dutil.lib(precomp.obj) : fatal error LNK1103: debugging information corrupt; recompile module errors. (I do see the new files... maybe the headers could do some magic tricks in

Re: [WiX-users] 3 problems with integration of WiX and VS2005 SP1

2008-10-28 Thread Michael Owings
I think the first issue is caused by the Wix utility static libraries being build with VS 2008. You'd need to rebuild them with 2005, I believe. This isn't a problem with 2.x (and VS 2005). Curtis Jewell wrote: 1. I'm trying to write a custom action, and bug 2166658 is hitting me despite

Re: [WiX-users] 3 problems with integration of WiX and VS2005 SP1

2008-10-28 Thread Curtis Jewell
It is, (that's what 2166658 is about) and I see files named dutil_2005.lib and wcautil_2005.lib - but shouldn't things just work if you include the appropriate headers? (Oh, they're linked in via the project properties and not via #pragma comment(lib, ...) stuff in the headers, going to change

Re: [WiX-users] 3 problems with integration of WiX and VS2005 SP1

2008-10-28 Thread Rob Mensching
1. If the _2005.libs are not working for you, please add any additional information available to the bug so it reopens. -Original Message- From: Curtis Jewell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:38 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.

[WiX-users] Paths In DirectorySearch

2008-10-28 Thread Vijai Kalyanapasupathy
Does the content of the Path attribute to the DirectorySearch element in Wix have any inherent limitation? Doing this Property Id='VS08EXISTS' DirectorySearch Id='Check08Dir' Path='[VS08IDE]\..\..\VC#\CSharpProjectItems'/DirectorySearch /Property elicits an error in the log

Re: [WiX-users] 3 problems with integration of WiX and VS2005 SP1 (fwd)

2008-10-28 Thread Curtis Jewell
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] 3 problems with integration of WiX and VS2005 SP1 On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Rob Mensching wrote about Re: [WiX-users] 3 problems...: 1. If the _2005.libs are not working for you, please add any additional information available to the bug so it reopens. Done. (Had to sign

Re: [WiX-users] Paths In DirectorySearch

2008-10-28 Thread Rob Mensching
Yes, Windows Installer has quite a few limitations. Such as no ... DrLocator will have more rules. -Original Message- From: Vijai Kalyanapasupathy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 15:38 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Paths In

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2008-10-28 Thread Andres Juarez
Hi there. We are running a MSI in W2K3+Sp1, and we get the error below. Is anyone familiar with this error? MSI (s) (00:B8) [16:37:35:138]: Executing op: CustomActionSchedule(Action=ExecXmlFile,ActionType=11265,Source=BinaryData,Target=**,CustomActionData=**)MSI (s)

[WiX-users] StartMetabaseTransaction: Error 0x8007041d: failed to get IID_IIMSAdminBase object

2008-10-28 Thread Andres Juarez
Hi there. We are running a MSI in W2K3+Sp1, and we get the error below. Is anyone familiar with this error? MSI (s) (00:B8) [16:37:35:138]: Executing op: CustomActionSchedule(Action=ExecXmlFile,ActionType=11265,Source=BinaryData,Target=**,CustomActionData=**)MSI (s) (00:04)

Re: [WiX-users] Question regarding the attribute Win64 inComponent

2008-10-28 Thread MAKARAND HAZARIKA
Hi everyone and thanks Pally for replying. Here is what I want to do - I have two installers of a product, one for 32bit version and one for 64bit version. Now, my task is to combine them both into one single installer. There are certain dlls that will go into both 32bit and 64bit. So I am

Re: [WiX-users] vc9 mergemodule and long uninstallation times

2008-10-28 Thread Bob Arnson
Bryan Turner wrote: We have also experienced this issue. Fortunately, we have a bootstrapper/chainer that allows us to install vcredist_x86.exe and vcredist_x64.exe instead of merging those modules into our installer directly. The downside is that the redist has its own entry in ARP/PF

Re: [WiX-users] Trying to create a user.

2008-10-28 Thread Bob Arnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: candle -o mystuff.wixlib mystuff.wxs -ext WixUtilExtension.dll Note that candle produces .wixobj files, which you can combine into a .wixlib using the lit tool. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/

Re: [WiX-users] Question regarding the attribute Win64 inComponent

2008-10-28 Thread Bob Arnson
MAKARAND HAZARIKA wrote: I have two installers of a product, one for 32bit version and one for 64bit version. Now, my task is to combine them both into one single installer. Windows Installer doesn't support that. See Using 64-Bit Windows Installer Packages in the MSI SDK for details. --

[WiX-users] Bitwise operations in Wix

2008-10-28 Thread Mukesh Agrawal
Are there any operators supporting this ? AND , NOT, OR are logical operators, right ? Thanks and Regards Mukesh - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based