I expect that assertion is coming from your DLL. WiX toolset doesn't have a file named "dllsetup.cpp" AFAIK.
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Hoover, Jacob <jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com>wrote: > Use the debug binaries/pdb's from http://wixtoolset.org/ and hit Cancel. > That will give you VS with a call stack at the point of assertion. You > should be able to tell what heat is harvesting. A wild guess tells me that > DLLRegisterServer or DLLUnregisterServer is not returning a success status > code when heat is invoking it to self register/unregister. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peterson Trethewey [mailto:peterson.trethe...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 5:53 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Assertion failure when running heat. > > Hello wix-users, > > I'm writing a script that generates an installer. The script uses heat to > make a wxs file. In the middle of running heat, a dialog appears saying: > > Assertion failed. > > SUCCEEDED(hr) > At line 404 of dllsetup.cpp > Continue? (Cancel to debug) > > Yes, No, Cancel > > If I click "Yes", heat builds the wxs file as if nothing went wrong. > On my computer, I can click "yes" at the appropriate time, but I'd like to > run the script on a headless server, where I can't click "yes". Any ideas > what this assertion failure is about? Or how to work around it? > > Thanks, > > --pt > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for > free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- virtually, Rob Mensching http://RobMensching.com LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users