I'll try to answer your questions, but this is my first experience doing
any sort of work in Visual Studio, so I'm largely unfamiliar. I'm also
using 2003, which seems that is partially contributing to my problems.
Basically the installer seemed to be working, except on one particular
vista 64 machine where it looks like it is failing in a particular CA.
At that point I decided I needed to find out how to do some logging from
within the Custom Action so I could diagnose the problem beyond
'returned status 3.'
That leads me to believe that any dependency that might not be met was
introduced when I included wcautil.lib and dutil.lib.
In order to get this to compile, I also had to build without /clr. Not
something I'm familiar with, but I'm aware of the managed code is bad in
CAs mantra, so that sounded reasonable.
Are you dynamically linking against MSVCRT?
I'm not sure... how might I find out?
It is possible your CustomAction has some dependency and failing to load
right off the bat.
Would it be that the DLL itself has a dependency ( as opposed to the CA)
because that could be the case.
>From trying to isolate the problem, the CA itself currently has nothing
but "return ERROR_SUCCES" and it still dies.
Also, can you share the .wxs authoring for the CustomAction
Is this what you mean?
<CustomAction Id='VerifyLicenseDir' BinaryKey='LicenseFileUtils'
DllEntry='VerifyLicenseDir' />
When is it being scheduled?
It is run when the user clicks the next button in a custom dialog.
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From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 12:29 AM
To: Rowland, Chris; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action
Are you dynamically linking against MSVCRT? More specifically, what are
the dependencies your CustomAction has on the OS and are they all met?
It is possible your CustomAction has some dependency and failing to load
right off the bat. Also, can you share the .wxs authoring for the
CustomAction. When is it being scheduled?
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Yeah, the error was in the custom action. (It returned the value 3)
I had tried to attach to msiexec.exe before to debug, but didn't make
any progress with that.
Can you show me how you fired off the MessageBox from within your CA?
This is a lot of debugging just so I can debug :-)
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From: Brian Simoneau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 4:57 PM
To: Rowland, Chris; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action
Was the error in the custom action itself? If so, then you can always
try to debug the custom action in Visual Studio. I was able to do this
by adding a MessageBox to the beginning of the custom action and then
attaching to the MessageBox when the custom action was run. If the
error was when launching the custom action, there may be a missing
dependency.
-Brian Simoneau
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Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action
After an obscene amount of headbanging, I finally managed to get
it to build (with warnings) with the almighty T() call.
Unfortunately that resulted in a CA that caused the installer to
quit due to an error. If only I could log what was going on ><
Assuming the lack of wrapping my strings was not the issue, is
there anything else (no matter how obvious, cause it might not be
obvious to me) that I might be doing wrong?
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From: Brian Simoneau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 3:18 PM
To: Rowland, Chris; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action
_T is a macro defined in tchar.h. I believe this was included
in earlier Visual Studios because my custom actions were originally
written in VS2003. It looks like __out and others are defined in sal.h.
-Brian Simoneau
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Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action
It's an immediate CA. I tried wrapping my strings with
_T() but _T is not defined. Another VS05 difference?
Could my definitions be causing a problem? I more or
less copied them from a forum post I saw regarding a similar problem.
#define __out /* ? */
#define __in /* ? */
#define __inout /* ? */
#define __in_bcount(THING) /* ? */
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From: Brian Simoneau
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Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 2:59 PM
To: Rowland, Chris; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action
That code looks the same as what I am using except that
I have _T() around my strings. Are you running your custom action
immediate or deferred?
-Brian Simoneau
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Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom
action
Thanks for the continuing advice. I'm still not
seeing any log out put though. I've commented out the guts of my CA, so
now I have just:
extern "C" UINT __stdcall
VerifyLicenseDir(MSIHANDLE hInstall)
{
WcaInitialize(hInstall,
"VerifyLicenseDir");
WcaLog(LOGMSG_STANDARD, "Enter
VerifyLicenseDir");
return WcaFinalize(ERROR_SUCCESS);
}
MSI (c) (04:F4) [14:19:38:375]: Doing action:
VerifyLicenseDir
MSI (c) (04:F4) [14:19:38:375]: Note: 1: 2205 2:
3: ActionText
Action 14:19:38: VerifyLicenseDir.
Action start 14:19:38: VerifyLicenseDir.
MSI (c) (04:C8) [14:19:38:390]: Invoking remote
custom action. DLL: C:\... Entrypoint: VerifyLicenseDir
MSI (c) (04:C0) [14:19:38:390]: Cloaking
enabled.
MSI (c) (04:C0) [14:19:38:390]: Attempting to
enable all disabled priveleges before calling Install on Server
MSI (c) (04:C0) [14:19:38:390]: Connected to
service for CA interface.
Action ended 14:19:38: VerifyLicenseDir. Return
value 1.
Did I feed WcaInitialize a bad 2nd argument? I
was guessing it was just going to be used as an identifier in the log
output.
Do I need to call
WcaGlobalInitialize/WcaGlobalFinalize in some way as well?
Thanks again for your help. Google doesn't
reveal much on this subject :-(
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From: Brian Simoneau
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 1:58 PM
To: Rowland, Chris;
WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom
action
You have to call WcaInitialize in your method
before you can call WcaLog. You also need to call WcaFinalize before
you exit the method. So your last line could look something like:
return WcaFinalize(ERROR_SUCCESS);
-Brian Simonea
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