Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-27 Thread Bob Arnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As in /MD instead of /MT? Other way. /MD[d] says to use the CRT DLL; /MT[d] says to statically link the CRT. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Downlo

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-27 Thread Wilson, Phil
odule. Phil Wilson From: Peterson, Joel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 1:53 PM To: Simon Dahlbacka; Wilson, Phil Cc: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action After installing Visual Studio 2005 SP1, the WinSxS Merge Modules

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-27 Thread Peterson, Joel
7 11:03 AM To: Wilson, Phil Cc: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action On 4/27/07, Wilson, Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ah, ok, the one in [ProgramFilesFolder]Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\BootStrapper\Packages\vcredist_x86 is

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-27 Thread Chris.Rowland
f a missing library or version incompatibility? From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 11:53 AM To: Rowland, Chris Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action [EMAIL

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-27 Thread Mike Dimmick
2007 17:50 To: LEMIRE, JOHN; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action There is a tool out there called "depends.exe" that does this *and* provides a spiffy tree that shows all the dependencies your code has. I use this tool *all the time* to

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-27 Thread Simon Dahlbacka
On 4/27/07, Wilson, Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ah, ok, the one in [ProgramFilesFolder]Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\BootStrapper\Packages\vcredist_x86 is up to date with SP1. yes, I should probably have mentioned that (as long as you pull it from a machine that has been updated wi

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-27 Thread Wilson, Phil
EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wilson, Phil Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 10:45 AM To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action I find it hard to believe they put a refresh up there on April 10th that is not for SP1, but you

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-27 Thread Wilson, Phil
nt: Friday, April 27, 2007 9:58 AM To: Wilson, Phil Cc: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action On 4/27/07, Wilson, Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As an easy test, install the VC support redist for VS 2005 on a test system and see if yo

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-27 Thread Chris.Rowland
As in /MD instead of /MT? From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 12:08 PM To: Rowland, Chris Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-27 Thread Simon Dahlbacka
AIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Friday, April 27, 2007 9:04 AM *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Cc:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action I found a co-worker lucky enough to have 05 insta

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-27 Thread Rob Mensching
CTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of LEMIRE, JOHN Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 9:44 AM To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action I've lost track of what your CA actually does (if it was ever mentioned) but have you tried using a dummy exe shell an

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-27 Thread LEMIRE, JOHN
D]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action You may have other problems (like dependencies that aren't being met thus your code is immediately failing) but assuming that your code is running correctly, you're not going to see any m

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-27 Thread Wilson, Phil
n getting into the CA in the first place? From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 2:18 AM To: Rowland, Chris Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action [EMAIL

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-27 Thread Rob Mensching
"DoAction". Windows Installer restriction. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 6:52 AM To: Rob Mensching; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action I'll try to answer your questi

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-27 Thread Bob Arnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to determine from the log why a CA is failing to execute, if it appears that its never even getting into the CA in the first place? That almost always means that the DLL has a dependency not being met, which almost always means you're linking with

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-27 Thread Bob Arnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I haven't tried that. The WiX chm explicitly says you need VS 2005 to build. I guess I could try it with 03 anyways. That's why I'm not sure you can use wcautil.lib from VS 7.1. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org ---

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-27 Thread Chris.Rowland
in the first place? From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 2:18 AM To: Rowland, Chris Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-27 Thread Chris.Rowland
='Microsoft.VC80.CRT' version='8.0.50608.0' ... encountered; ignored From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 12:29 AM To: Rowland, Chris; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-27 Thread Chris.Rowland
users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was able to resolve my build errors by "defining" everything missing myself (to /**/ ). I read that they might be defined by default in VS05, but not in VS03 (what I'm using

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-27 Thread Chris.Rowland
en the user clicks the next button in a custom dialog. From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 12:29 AM To: Rowland, Chris; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action Are you dynamically

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-26 Thread Bob Arnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was able to resolve my build errors by "defining" everything missing myself (to /**/ ). I read that they might be defined by default in VS05, but not in VS03 (what I'm using.) Did you rebuild wcautil.lib? I'm not sure whether you're going to run into problems

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-26 Thread Rob Mensching
CustomAction. When is it being scheduled? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action Yeah, the error was in the custom

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-26 Thread Rob Mensching
ECTED]; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action _T is a macro defined in tchar.h. I believe this was included in earlier Visual Studios because my custom actions were originally written in VS2003. It looks like __out and others are defined in sal.h. -

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-26 Thread Rob Mensching
; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action That code looks the same as what I am using except that I have _T() around my strings. Are you running your custom action immediate or deferred? -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [m

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-26 Thread LEMIRE, JOHN
d to use the mangled name... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action Ye

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-26 Thread Brian Simoneau
Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 5:20 PM To: Brian Simoneau; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action Yeah, the error was in th

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-26 Thread Chris.Rowland
debug :-) From: Brian Simoneau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 4:57 PM To: Rowland, Chris; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action Was the error in the custom action itself? If so, then yo

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-26 Thread Brian Simoneau
: RE: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action After an obscene amount of headbanging, I finally managed to get it to build (with warnings) with the almighty T() call. Unfortunately that resulted in a CA that caused the installer to quit due to an error. If

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-26 Thread Chris.Rowland
-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action _T is a macro defined in tchar.h. I believe this was included in earlier Visual Studios because my custom actions were originally written in VS2003. It looks like __out and others are defined in sal.h. -Brian Si

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-26 Thread Brian Simoneau
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 3:05 PM To: Brian Simoneau; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action It's an immediate CA. I tried wrapping my strings with _T() but _T is not de

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-26 Thread Chris.Rowland
efine __inout /* ? */ #define __in_bcount(THING) /* ? */ From: Brian Simoneau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 2:59 PM To: Rowland, Chris; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action That code look

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-26 Thread Brian Simoneau
2:31 PM To: Brian Simoneau; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action Thanks for the continuing advice. I'm still not seeing any log out put though. I've commented out the guts of my CA, so now I

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-26 Thread Chris.Rowland
e in some way as well? Thanks again for your help. Google doesn't reveal much on this subject :-( From: Brian Simoneau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 1:58 PM To: Rowland, Chris; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-26 Thread Brian Simoneau
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 1:41 PM To: Brian Simoneau; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action I was able to resolve my build errors by "defining" everythi

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-26 Thread Chris.Rowland
ECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 12:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action Thanks, that looks like what I wanted. I'm having trouble linking everyth

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-26 Thread Chris.Rowland
__ From: Brian Simoneau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 4:20 PM To: Rowland, Chris; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action If you are writing a C++ custom action, then the WcaLog function in wcautil will write to t

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-25 Thread Rob Mensching
is used by the ExitOnXxx macros in WiX CusotmActions. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of LEMIRE, JOHN Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 2:15 PM To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action Note huge caveat that ::MsiProc

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-25 Thread LEMIRE, JOHN
I can't say if it overcomes this shortcoming... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 1:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Loggin

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-25 Thread Rob Mensching
users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action Is there any way to write a message to the install log from a custom action? Chris Rowland* Software Engineer * SunGard * Data Management Solutions * 1194 Oak Valley Drive, Suite 100 * Ann Arbor, MI 48108 * Tel 734.332.4423 * Fax 734.332

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-25 Thread Brian Simoneau
: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 4:08 PM To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action Is there any way to write a message to the install log from a custom action? Chris Rowland* Software Engineer * SunGard

[WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-25 Thread Chris.Rowland
Is there any way to write a message to the install log from a custom action? Chris Rowland* Software Engineer * SunGard * Data Management Solutions * 1194 Oak Valley Drive, Suite 100 * Ann Arbor, MI 48108 * Tel 734.332.4423 * Fax 734.332.4440 * http://www.sungard.com/datamanagementsolutions