Richard wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> How can I structure this such that the merge module is installed >> completely prior to installing the component? > > In addition to what Bob Arnson said, check your install execute > sequence and look at the relative ordering of the standard actions > that manipulate services and those that install the files. > > The canonical sequence has the sequence of: stop services, install > files, start services, so you should be OK. > > How did you determine that your service didn't start because of > missing runtime files?
Vista says that SxS (Visual C runtime 8.0 from VS 2005 SP1) is not available. Starting a configuration utility that depends on the same SxS indicated that there is a SxS installation error. If I do not attempt to start the service in the installer, I can run the configuration utility or the service after installation is complete. While searching the archives, I came across a response by Rob Mensching that appears to address the same problem. "Usually, this means your service has some dependency that hasn’t been completely installed by the time StartServices is called. A favorite way to hit this is to have a managed code service that depends on an assembly that is being installed to the GAC. Because assemblies aren’t committed to the GAC until InstallFinalize, the assembly won’t be found in the GAC until the install is complete." Moving the StartService after InstallFinalize didn't work - got an error that didn't even rollback :) Kind of expected. I'll try to install as a local assembly in addition to the merge module and see what happens. - Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
