Re: [WiX-users] Moving to another installer

2012-05-17 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
Yes. Search for the following topics in the MSDN or WiX help for more details: 1. Upgrade table (Windows Installer) 2. Repair (Windows Installer), WixExitEarlyWithSuccess (WiX) 3. CloseApplication (WiX), FilesInUse (Windows Installer) -Original Message- From: Luis Tiago C Eterovick

[WiX-users] Dependencies

2012-05-17 Thread Dmuller720
Hello everyone, I wanted to run something by you all and ask for your help implementing this. If this is not possible to do with build in functionality, or would require running an outside script that is an option but not ideal. Step One: Read a list of strings and dependencies in the form of

Re: [WiX-users] Specifying source subdirectory

2012-05-17 Thread robert_h_yang
Look into using SourceDir, eg. File .. Source='SourceDir\include\foo.h'/ You can use the -b linker option to specify the exact location of SourceDir. See also - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1811035/spaces-in-my-wix-source-path Martin Sustrik-2 wrote Hi, My source tree has a file

[WiX-users] OnExecuteProgress WS03: progress values go back to 95 from 100

2012-05-17 Thread Bruce Cran
I noticed that on Windows Server 2003 (Windows Installer 3.1) the progress values in OnExecuteProgress can go down - they reach 100 and then go back to 95 and work their way back up to 100. -- Bruce Cran -- Live

Re: [WiX-users] OnExecuteProgress WS03: progress values go back to 95 from 100

2012-05-17 Thread Wilson, Phil
That's probably normal. I don't know the actual implementation, but assuming it's based on MsiProcessMessage and INSTALLMESSAGE_PROGRESS the documentation says that progress can go backwards. There's probably a joke somewhere in there... Phil W -Original Message- From: Bruce Cran

[WiX-users] service uninstall fails if ServiceControl does not specify install= ???

2012-05-17 Thread Dave Combs
I have a service specified in a WiX 3.5 file. The file specifies the following ServiceControl ServiceControl Id=sc_KaazingServiceStart Name=KaazingJMSv33x64Service Stop=both Remove=uninstall Wait=yes / It used to have Start=install, but I needed to remove that to make starting the

[WiX-users] building an msi in the same dir as source files?

2012-05-17 Thread Andrew Maxwell
Hi again all, My last post was a bit of a brain-dump, so I can boil my question down to a few points here: :) - using heat, is there a way to harvest a directory and suppress directory id/name insertion in the resulting .wxs? (when automating heat output , this is an annoyance) eg . heat.exe dir