In order to set the property to include another property you have to use a
CustomAction
Try <CustomAction Id="PropertyCA" Property="QtExecDeferred"
Value=""[TOOLS]/mytool.exe"" />
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of steve baker
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 11:22 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] CAQuietExec in merge module path problem
i have a merge module that needs to fire off a CAQuietExec custom action:
<Property Id="QtExecDeferred" Value='"Tools\mytool.exe"' />
<CustomAction Id="QtExecDeferred" BinaryKey="WixCA" DllEntry="CAQuietExec"
Execute="deferred" Return="check"/>
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="QtExecDeferred" Before="InstallFinalize"/>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
my installation fails and rolls back with this error in the log:
CAQuietExec: Error 0x80070002: Command failed to execute.
CAQuietExec: Error 0x80070002: CAQuietExec Failed
i am thinking it is a path problem and it cant find the exe because if i
comment out the custom action and run the same commandline after the install
everything is fine, the exe to run is specified in the merge module in a tools
subdirectory like this:
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="MergeRedirectFolder">
<Directory Id="TOOLS" Name="Tools">
<Component Id="mytool.exe" Guid="{SOME-GUID}">
<File Id="mytool.exe" Name="mytool.exe" KeyPath="yes"
Source="mytool.exe" />
</Component>
...
i would like to use a fully qualified path but haven't been able to figure out
how to get the QtExecDeferred property to be fully qualified (properties like
INSTALLDIR dont seem to be accessible? i tried a few different things like this:
<Property Id="QtExecDeferred" Value='"[MergeRedirectFolder]\Tools\mytool.exe"'
/>
or
<Property Id="QtExecDeferred"
Value='"[TARGETDIR]\Tools\PerformanceCounterCreator.exe"' />
and got the following results in my log:
QtExecDeferred.THE_MODULE_GUID = "[MergeRedirectFolder]\Tools\mytool.exe"
and
QtExecDeferred.THE_MODULE_GUID = "[TARGETDIR]\Tools\mytool.exe"
please help...
TIA
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