On 14-Mar-13 17:14, Bruce Cran wrote:
> We've found that with WiX 3.7 running our installer as a service (e.g. 
> using srvany from the Resource Kit) on Windows Server 2008, the 
> bootstrapper never quits after installation.
I've seen reports of that too. It appears to work on Win7 and later.

> It calls PostQuitMessage(0) but for some reason GetMessage doesn't 
> return. As a workaround, we can set m_fQuitting and check it before 
> calling GetMessage.
> I've attached a patch against wix38. Should I send a pull request too?
Please. I'm not sure it's best fix, if we can make the 25-year-old 
message loop work the way it's supposed to. :) But it does seem like a 
weird OS thing, maybe with how services were tweaked in Vista/2008 for UAC.

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