I spent another night playing with it and it doesn't appear this behavior works on 2003 x64 either. This seems to limit the usefulness of custom actions.
Thanks for the tips, I may go down that route, seems like a lot of work though. RRjr ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeremy Kuhne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Bob Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Rafael Rivera Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tue Oct 31 14:42:24 2006 Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Custom Action Type 17 (DLL, C++) Path? Note that on Vista files in the same directory WON'T be found. Just spent a few weeks hunting this one down. If you want to make this work you can switch to delay loading your dll, hooking notifications, and adding the proper directory to the path when you're notified of the pending load. For full details on the delay load mechanism see Jeffrey Richter's article in MSJ, December 1998. "Win32 Q&A" http://www.microsoft.com/msj/1298/win32/win321298.aspx What I did was (under the dliNotePreLoadLibrary notification): 1. Call ::GetModuleHandleEx(GET_MODULE_HANDLE_EX_FLAG_UNCHANGED_REFCOUNT, L"*CURRENTDLLNAMEHERE*", &moduleHandle) 2. Call ::GetModuleFileName() on the handle to get the full filename of the currently running dll 3. Call ::PathRemoveFileSpec() to take the filename off of the path. 4. Call ::SetDllDirectory() to add the path to dll directory search Step 4 ONLY works on XP Sp1 or higher, so you'll need to load the dll yourself if you need to go lower than that. -Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Arnson Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 7:50 AM To: Rafael Rivera Jr. Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action Type 17 (DLL, C++) Path? Rafael Rivera Jr. wrote: > Is there a way to explicitly specify the path in which my Custom Action > Type 17 action runs in? It has a dependency on a library at init. > (imported) and cannot find it (Filemon shows it searching my PATH). > No, just files in the path that are present at the time the CA runs. A type 17 CA should also have access to files in the same directory. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
