Lav,
Aside from the usual "Custom Actions are [nearly always] evil" type
statements, the best thing to do is code your custom action via some
other mechanism.
Ideally, a custom action should not have any dependencies, since you do
not know what will and will not be present on the machine when the
custom action is run. This is especially true in the case of an
installation repair.
For your custom action to operate, you must a) install the dependent
dll, and b) schedule the custom action to occur after the files have
been copied.
I would strongly suggest that you do the following:
1) Evaluate how necessary the custom action is. Depending on what it is
supposed to achieve, can it be done by the application itself on initial
startup?
2) If the custom action really is necessary at installation time,
rewrite it encapsulated within a DLL with no external dependencies. This
may require duplication of code since it is entirely possible (if not
likely) that your application needs similar functionality. That is OK
though. Duplicated code (especially if managed appropriately by source
code control) is much less likely to cause installation problems than
fighting with dependencies.
Hope this helps,
Regards,
Richard
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Subject: [WiX-users] Dll dependent Custom Actions
Hi,
I've a custom Action which uses an exe.This exe is refering to another
dll.
How can I make this dll available to the exe during installation,As it
is failing during installation with error "Unable to load dll or it's
dependencies" ?
<CustomAction BinaryKey="PublishServices" Id="RegisterServiceCatalog"
ExeCommand="Executable" />
<Binary Id="PublishServices" SourceFile="Binary\Executable.exe" />
Regards,
Lav
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