Re: [WiX-users] WiX support for (gulp!) WinNT4

2012-05-07 Thread Quinton Tormanen
On 05-May-12 10:31 AM, Bob Arnson wrote: Are you using the same OS on the build machine? I am almost certain that I used the same OS on the build machine (64-bit Windows 7). But obviously there have been a lot of updates to Windows since then. I was able to successfully build a NT4-compatible

Re: [WiX-users] WiX support for (gulp!) WinNT4

2012-05-05 Thread Bob Arnson
On 02-May-12 11:51, Quinton Tormanen wrote: The schema is 200, and when built back in 2010 using the same source and toolset it worked up until the path validation. Are you using the same OS on the build machine? MSI (c) (88:6F): Note: 1: 2203 2: rmcwin.msi 3: -2147286779 MSI (c) (88:6F):

Re: [WiX-users] WiX support for (gulp!) WinNT4

2012-05-02 Thread Quinton Tormanen
On 01-May-12 20:03, Bob Arnson wrote: See wix.chm on WIXUI_DONTVALIDATEPATH for how to skip validation. That sounds perfect Bob. Unfortunately, now when I build from the same source/toolset, the resulting MSI won't start at all. It gives error 1620 on WinNT4+SP6 (but works on newer OSes). This

Re: [WiX-users] WiX support for (gulp!) WinNT4

2012-05-01 Thread Rob Mensching
All versions of WiX can generate MSIs targeting any version of Windows Installer. However, you will have to be very careful about using WiX toolset custom actions (usually via Extensions) because we compile against the latest security approved CRTs which sets our minimum OS level to what is still

Re: [WiX-users] WiX support for (gulp!) WinNT4

2012-05-01 Thread Bob Arnson
On 01-May-12 11:17, Rob Mensching wrote: I bet you're using the WixUI and that has a custom action in it to verify paths. You'll have to hack that out (basically, create your own UI) to get it all to run on NT4. See wix.chm on WIXUI_DONTVALIDATEPATH for how to skip validation. -- sig://boB

[WiX-users] WiX support for (gulp!) WinNT4

2012-04-30 Thread Quinton Tormanen
We have an older product that supports WinNT4 (with SP6+IE4). The installer for this product was built using WiX 3.0.5419.0. The last release was November 2010. We found that running the MSI file on WinNT4+SP6+IE4 appears to work except that the user cannot get past selecting a target folder,