Just a few comments: Deferred and before RemoveFiles makes sense, but what action is removing the Dlls that the exe needs?
Is APPLICATIONDIRECTORY recovered and is it correct at uninstall time? Your condition on the uninstall is incorrect. Use REMOVE="ALL" as a condition for an uninstall. The problem with using Installed as your condition on the remove is that it is set in several situations where you don't want it to be called. If you do a repair, add or remove features, then your remove will be called because the Installed condition is met. Phil -----Original Message----- From: kurt.jen...@us.ophiropt.com [mailto:kurt.jen...@us.ophiropt.com] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 7:18 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] EXE custom action cannot run because DLLs are removed I am running an installed EXE during the uninstall. This EXE requires DLLs that were also installed. But the EXE is not running. From the log I can see the custom action is scheduled, some DLLs are removed, then it starts running. The EXE will not run without those DLL. The EXE uninstalls a driver so must run deferred in order to get elevated privileges. I have tried various Before and After in the InstallExecuteSequence without any luck. I've also searched the archive with no luck. Here is a snippet of the WXS <CustomAction Id="ProDriverInstall" Directory="APPLICATIONDIRECTORY" ExeCommand="[APPLICATIONDIRECTORY]$(var.ProDriverInstallation.TargetName)" Execute="deferred" Impersonate="no" Return="asyncWait" /> <CustomAction Id="ProDriverRemove" Directory="APPLICATIONDIRECTORY" ExeCommand="[APPLICATIONDIRECTORY]ProDriverRemoval.exe" Execute="deferred" Impersonate="no" Return="asyncWait" /> <InstallExecuteSequence> <Custom Action="ProDriverInstall" After="InstallFiles">NOT Installed</Custom> <Custom Action="ProDriverRemove" Before="RemoveFiles">Installed</Custom> </InstallExecuteSequence> Any idea how I can get this to work? Kurt Jensen Senior Software Engineer Ophir-Spiricon LLC www.ophiropt.com/photonics<http://www.ophiropt.com/photonics> The True Measurement of Laser Performance TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. A cloud service to automate IT design, transition and operations 2. Dashboards that offer high-level views of enterprise services 3. A single system of record for all IT processes http://p.sf.net/sfu/servicenow-d2d-j _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. A cloud service to automate IT design, transition and operations 2. Dashboards that offer high-level views of enterprise services 3. A single system of record for all IT processes http://p.sf.net/sfu/servicenow-d2d-j _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
