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
>
>
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