Hmm, that's mysterious. We've heard of issues with mergemod.dll and some MSMs. Can you get a debugger attached and get a callstack? That would greatly help narrow the set of things that might be causing this.
Fredrik Kauma wrote: > Hi all! > I am unable to create an installer that installs the merge modules for > MapInfo's MapXtreme 6.8.0. There are a total of 4 merge modules that I > need to install: > > MIFonts_6.8.0.msm > MapInfoCoreEngine_6.8.0.msm > MapInfoDesktop_6.8.0.msm > MapInfoMXTConfig_6.8.0.msm > > I can install MIFonts_6.8.0.msm without problems. > MapInfoMXTConfig_6.8.0.msm causes an unexpected Win32 error with code > 0x065B: "Function failed during execution" in light.exe. > MapInfoCoreEngine_6.8.0.msm and MapInfoDesktop_6.8.0.msm causes ICE 83 > and ICE30 errors. > > I was able to "work around" the ICE83 (adding code) and ICE30 (suppress) > errors but now I am stuck with the "unexpected Win32 error" caused by > MapInfoMXTConfig_6.8.0.msm. Does anyone have any ideas on what to try? I > am new to Wix and I so there is a definite possibility of user error > here. Is my only option to contact MapInfo support? The strange thing is > that if I include these merge modules in an installation created by Wise > Installation Studio (Windows Installer Edition), they work fine (or at > least I can create an MSI that installs them). > > Here is my source code example that I am trying to get to work, I am > using Wix version 3.0.5217.0: > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";> > <Product Id="8d7c4545-3fd5-4108-a1eb-fc79bfe6877d" > Name="MergeTest" Language="1033" Version="1.0.0.0" Manufacturer="Acme" > UpgradeCode="6f759b4a-6be5-4568-8dab-96f4c583ad45"> > <Package InstallerVersion="200" Compressed="yes" /> > <Media Id="1" Cabinet="media1.cab" EmbedCab="yes" /> > > <!-- BEGIN: Corrects bug in MapXtreme merge modules... > --> > <AdvertiseExecuteSequence> > <MsiPublishAssemblies/> > </AdvertiseExecuteSequence> > > <InstallExecuteSequence> > <MsiPublishAssemblies/> > <MsiUnpublishAssemblies/> > </InstallExecuteSequence> > <!-- END: Corrects bug in MapXtreme merge modules... --> > > <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir"> > <Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder"> > <Directory Id="INSTALLLOCATION" > Name="TextTxtFolder"> > <Component > Id="TestTxtComponentId" Guid="{04C1801F-45EC-4c03-9E47-C362D19767FD}"> > <File Id="TestTxtFileId" > KeyPath="yes" Source="test.txt" /> > </Component> > <Merge Id="MIFonts" > Language="1033" SourceFile="MIFonts_6.8.0.msm" DiskId="1"/> > <Merge Id="MICore" > Language="1033" SourceFile="MapInfoCoreEngine_6.8.0.msm" DiskId="1" /> > <Merge Id="MIDesktop" > Language="1033" SourceFile="MapInfoDesktop_6.8.0.msm" DiskId="1" /> > <Merge Id="MIConfig" > Language="1033" SourceFile="MapInfoMXTConfig_6.8.0.msm" DiskId="1" /> > </Directory> > </Directory> > </Directory> > > <Feature Id="ProductFeature" Title="mxmerge" Level="1"> > <ComponentRef Id="TestTxtComponentId"/> > <MergeRef Id="MIFonts" /> > <MergeRef Id="MICore" /> > <MergeRef Id="MIDesktop" /> > <MergeRef Id="MIConfig" /> > </Feature> > </Product> > </Wix> > > > BR, > Fredrik > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
