Unfortunately, we don't own the DifxApp code. It seems like the 
Condition on the Component should work but the DIFXApp team would have 
to tell you if/why it does not.

Kalev Lember wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to conditionally install drivers with DIFxApp extension?
>
> If I put a Condition element inside the Component or Feature that
> contains the driver files, it doesn't seem to have any effect to the
> custom actions that actually install the drivers. For example, one of
> the custom actions from DlFxApp that deals with driver installs is
> MsiProcessDrivers. Setting a Condition to the Component containing the
> <difx:Driver/> tag does not change the custom action's condition in
> InstallExecuteSequence.
>
> <DirectoryRef Id="DriversFolder">
>      <!-- 32 bit usb ccid generic driver -->
>      <Component Id="usbccid" Guid="MY GUID">
>          <Condition>NOT VersionNT64</Condition>
>          <File Source="$(var.UsbccidDir)\usbccid.sys" KeyPath="yes" />
>          <File Source="$(var.UsbccidDir)\usbccid.inf" />
>          <File Source="$(var.UsbccidDir)\usbccid.cat" />
>          <difx:Driver DeleteFiles="yes" PlugAndPlayPrompt="no" />
>      </Component>
> </DirectoryRef>
>
>
> I also tried to change the custom action directly (that would be an ugly
> hack of course), but this doesn't work either:
> <InstallExecuteSequence>
>      <Custom Action="MsiProcessDrivers" After="UninstallCertificates">
>          NOT VersionNT64
>      </Custom>
> </InstallExecuteSequence>
>
> The error I got was:
>
>   
>> C:\delivery\Dev\wix30_public\src\ext\DifxAppExtension\wixlib\DIFxAppExtension.wxs(8)
>>  : error LGHT017
>> 0 : The InstallExecuteSequence table contains an action 'MsiProcessDrivers' 
>> that is declared in two
>> different locations.  Please remove one of the actions or set the 
>> Overridable='yes' attribute on one
>>  of their elements.
>>     
>
>
> The reason why I needed to conditionally install the drivers was that on
> a 64 bit Windows the 32 bit MSI with 32 bit drivers fails to install. It
> would make sense to allow users to install the 32 bit MSI on a 64 bit
> platform, but currently install fails because of the drivers. Given that
> the 64 bit drivers are also available from Windows Update, I'd like to
> just install the rest of the MSI. However, I am unable to find a clean
> way to NOT install the drivers on a 64 bit platform. Currently the
> install fails with the following error:
>
> DIFXAPP: ERROR - You need to use the 64-bit version of DIFXAPP.DLL to
> install drivers on this machine.
>
> Any suggestions how to not install the drivers based on a condition?
>
> --
> Kalev
>
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