Thanks for the tip on the Dependency Walker tool. Running depends.exe. My verbose log states in the relevant lines. ... MSI (c) (78:44) [13:18:52:817]: Doing action: PIDKEYValidation Action 13:18:52: PIDKEYValidation. Action start 13:18:52: PIDKEYValidation. MSI (c) (78:D4) [13:18:52:823]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\Users\sam\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI9C65.tmp, Entrypoint: PIDKEYValidation MSI (c) (78:C0) [13:18:52:826]: Cloaking enabled. MSI (c) (78:C0) [13:18:52:827]: Attempting to enable all disabled privileges before calling Install on Server MSI (c) (78:C0) [13:18:52:828]: Connected to service for CA interface. MSI (c) (78:44) [13:18:52:900]: Note: 1: 1723 2: PIDKEYValidation 3: PIDKEYValidation 4: C:\Users\sam\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI9C65.tmp Error 1723. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A DLL required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Action PIDKEYValidation, entry: PIDKEYValidation, library: C:\Users\sam\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI9C65.tmp MSI (c) (78:44) [13:18:55:866]: Product: WITS 3.04 -- Error 1723. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A DLL required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Action PIDKEYValidation, entry: PIDKEYValidation, library: C:\Users\sam\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI9C65.tmp
Action ended 13:18:55: PIDKEYValidation. Return value 3. DEBUG: Error 2896: Executing action PIDKEYValidation failed. The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2896. The arguments are: PIDKEYValidation, , Action ended 13:18:55: WelcomeDlg. Return value 3. MSI (c) (78:C0) [13:18:55:884]: Doing action: FatalError Action 13:18:55: FatalError. ... I basically am using this demo with an addition of some conditionals to determine which features are installed by the PIDKEY http://www.wixwiki.com/index.php?title=Simple_Custom_Action_Dll After installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86) <http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A5C84275-3B97-4AB7-A40D-3802B2AF5FC2&displaylang=en> on the Virtual Machine with Windows Server 2008 R2 my Dll ran fine. --Sam On 4/8/2010 4:10 PM, Bob Arnson wrote: > On 4/8/2010 1:14 PM, Sam Domonkos wrote: > >> I know this is not specifically WiX 3.5, but I have a custom action that >> will run on XP 32bit, Windows7 32 and 64bit, but will not run on Windows >> Server 2008 R2. >> > Use Dependency Walker to see if the DLL has dependencies you're not > accounting for. Otherwise, generic advice: use a verbose log to see how > far your code gets. (You didn't say how it fails so it's difficult to be > more precise.) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
