Re: [WiX-users] Port monitor + printer driver
Trevor Clifton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DPInst.exe is the round about way of doing this when using WiX. Specifically, DIFxApp is the easies way to install drivers correctly using WiX. If you have a single .inf file that describes the port monitor and then describes the printer driver, then you need only one Component for the 2 drivers in WiX. I'm sorry but I can not follow here. IMHO it does not matter if I use an own component or not. And well as I just can tell, the stuff from the printer driver gets installed properly in the directory where it is searched for. However that seems not to work for the Port Monitor. I helped myself with installing the Monitor in a custom action after having installed all the files. I can not tell if that is supposed to be the way to go or not. The docs do not mention anything about that. lightArgs: projectname.wixobj C:\WINDDK\6000\redist\DIFx\DIFxApp\English\WixLib\x86\difxapp.wixlib -out projectname.msi extensions ClassFilter.wxs is a great example of this given in the DDK: C:\WinDDK\6000\src\setup\DIFxApp\WiXLib Well I can not see hot this helps with my problem of installing a unidrv based printer driver with a proper port monitor. Regards Friedrich - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Port monitor + printer driver
What about the DPInst.exe from DIFxApp (see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370579.aspx) It is part of WDK. It is standalone binary and by default it will try to install all drivers in the working directory. I am using the DPInst.exe to install the PnP drivers for PCMCIA adapters and it is working well. If this will not work then the DIFxApp framework will not help you. regards Stefan Friedrich Dominicus wrote: Ok, here we go again. Is there anothe way to install a port monitor and a printer driver from one installer file. Or do one has to write setup program which internally first run msiexec on the port monitor and afterwards the printer driver, in which one then can run a custom action to add the PrinterMonitor and a Printer? Regards Friedrich - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Stefan Pavlik | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whitestein Technologies s.r.o. | www.whitestein.com Panenska 28 | 811 03 Bratislava | Slovak Republic Main +421 2 5443-5502 | Direct +421 2 5930-0735 - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Port monitor + printer driver
DPInst.exe is the round about way of doing this when using WiX. Specifically, DIFxApp is the easies way to install drivers correctly using WiX. If you have a single .inf file that describes the port monitor and then describes the printer driver, then you need only one Component for the 2 drivers in WiX. If you have 2 .inf files, one to describe the Port driver, and the other to describe the printer driver, then you will have 2 components, one for each inf and accompanying driver files. Make sure each inf file is in its own directory once copied to the system, and is accompanied by all of the files that it needs to install. Read the docs on Component Element and look specifically at the DIFxApp specific attributes that you must add to make that component get installed correctly. You will then include the ComponentRef(s) in the Feature that you want them to be installed with. Be sure to use WiX v2 to link to the difxapp.wixlib binaries (because there is a problem with v3), like this: lightArgs: projectname.wixobj C:\WINDDK\6000\redist\DIFx\DIFxApp\English\WixLib\x86\difxapp.wixlib -out projectname.msi extensions ClassFilter.wxs is a great example of this given in the DDK: C:\WinDDK\6000\src\setup\DIFxApp\WiXLib Here is some sample code of what I am describing: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? !-- lightArgs: projectname.wixobj C:\WINDDK\6000\redist\DIFx\DIFxApp\English\WixLib\x86\difxapp.wixlib -out projectname.msi extensions -- Wix xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2003/01/wi; Product UpgradeCode= Name=ClassFilter Id= Version=1.0.0 Manufacturer=Microsoft Language=1033 Package Id=xxx Manufacturer=Microsoft InstallerVersion=200 Platforms=Intel Languages=1033 Compressed=yes SummaryCodepage=1252 / Directory Id=TARGETDIR Name=SourceDir Directory Id=DRVDIR Name=Drivers Directory Id=DRVDIR_PORT Name=PORT SourceName=. Component Id=C__Driver1 Guid=xxx DriverForceInstall=no DriverSequence=0 File Id=DRV1_INF Name=PortDrv.INF Vital=yes KeyPath=yes DiskId=1 / File Id=DRV1_CAT Name=Port.CAT Vital=yes KeyPath=no DiskId=1 / File Id=DRV1_SYS Name=Port.SYS Vital=yes KeyPath=no DiskId=1 / /Component /Directory Directory Id=DRVDIR_PRINTER Name=PRINTER SourceName=. Component Id=C__Driver2 Guid=xxx DriverForceInstall=no DriverSequence=0 File Id=DRV2_INF Name=PrntrDrv.INF Vital=yes KeyPath=yes DiskId=1 / File Id=DRV2_CAT Name=Printer.CAT Vital=yes KeyPath=no DiskId=1 / File Id=DRV2_SYS Name=Printer.SYS Vital=yes KeyPath=no DiskId=1 / /Component Directory Id=ProgramMenuFolder Name=. SourceName=USER'S~1 LongSource=User's Programs Menu / /Directory /Directory Directory Id=DesktopFolder Name=. SourceName=USER'S~2 LongSource=User's Desktop / /Directory Feature Id=DefaultFeature Level=1 ConfigurableDirectory=TARGETDIR ComponentRef Id=C__Driver1 / ComponentRef Id=C__Driver2 / /Feature Media Id=1/ UI / /Product /Wix Good Luck, -Trevor -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stefan Pavlik Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 2:56 AM To: Friedrich Dominicus Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Port monitor + printer driver What about the DPInst.exe from DIFxApp (see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370579.aspx) It is part of WDK. It is standalone binary and by default it will try to install all drivers in the working directory. I am using the DPInst.exe to install the PnP drivers for PCMCIA adapters and it is working well. If this will not work then the DIFxApp framework will not help you. regards Stefan Friedrich Dominicus wrote: Ok, here we go again. Is there anothe way to install a port monitor and a printer driver from one installer file. Or do one has to write setup program which internally first run msiexec on the port monitor and afterwards the printer driver, in which one then can run a custom action to add the PrinterMonitor and a Printer? Regards Friedrich - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Stefan Pavlik | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whitestein Technologies s.r.o. | www.whitestein.com Panenska 28 | 811 03 Bratislava | Slovak Republic Main +421 2 5443-5502 | Direct +421 2 5930-0735 - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join
Re: [WiX-users] Port monitor + printer driver
Isn't that your custom action is not scheduled correctly? I mean you should instruct the system to create a port monitor once your 'monitor file' was extracted from msi, right? Dacian - Original Message From: Friedrich Dominicus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, April 4, 2007 7:03:26 AM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Port monitor + printer driver fiordean dacian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess this is rather a system problem than Windows Installer. The quick answer is yes, you can install your printer monitor and driver from one installer file. Ok, if that does work how? Is this accepted by the system? Problem: the port monitor has to find it's way into the System32 folder but the files are not installed at least up to MsiProcessDrivers and as I was suprised to see much later. So while running a custom action to add the Monitor the file with the monitor is still not accessible on the disk. It's in the .msi file of course. But it seems there is no easy way to just pick it out and install it manually You will have to check that yourself. I did and therfor I asked if there is a way. Cause I did not found it. Regards Friedrich - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Port monitor + printer driver
Ok, here we go again. Is there anothe way to install a port monitor and a printer driver from one installer file. Or do one has to write setup program which internally first run msiexec on the port monitor and afterwards the printer driver, in which one then can run a custom action to add the PrinterMonitor and a Printer? Regards Friedrich - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Port monitor + printer driver
I guess this is rather a system problem than Windows Installer. The quick answer is yes, you can install your printer monitor and driver from one installer file. Is this accepted by the system? You will have to check that yourself. Dacian - Original Message From: Friedrich Dominicus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 5:53:45 PM Subject: [WiX-users] Port monitor + printer driver Ok, here we go again. Is there anothe way to install a port monitor and a printer driver from one installer file. Or do one has to write setup program which internally first run msiexec on the port monitor and afterwards the printer driver, in which one then can run a custom action to add the PrinterMonitor and a Printer? Regards Friedrich - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Port monitor + printer driver
fiordean dacian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess this is rather a system problem than Windows Installer. The quick answer is yes, you can install your printer monitor and driver from one installer file. Ok, if that does work how? Is this accepted by the system? Problem: the port monitor has to find it's way into the System32 folder but the files are not installed at least up to MsiProcessDrivers and as I was suprised to see much later. So while running a custom action to add the Monitor the file with the monitor is still not accessible on the disk. It's in the .msi file of course. But it seems there is no easy way to just pick it out and install it manually You will have to check that yourself. I did and therfor I asked if there is a way. Cause I did not found it. Regards Friedrich - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
