Re: [WiX-users] Error 1723 when calling CAQuiteExec to xcopy config files

2014-07-08 Thread John Cooper
Message- From: Nicolás Alvarez [mailto:nicolas.alva...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 8, 2014 8:38 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Error 1723 when calling CAQuiteExec to xcopy config files 2014-07-07 7:25 GMT-03:00 David Welton : > Dear WiX users, >

Re: [WiX-users] Error 1723 when calling CAQuiteExec to xcopy config files

2014-07-08 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
2014-07-07 7:25 GMT-03:00 David Welton : > Dear WiX users, > > I am getting an "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" when I try and > run a custom actio

Re: [WiX-users] Error 1723 when calling CAQuiteExec to xcopy config files

2014-07-08 Thread Carter Young
Does this Old Post Help: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Custom-Action-DLL-getting-Error-1723-td5766623.html Quoting David Welton : > Hi Pally, > > I have considered CopyFile but didn't think it would satisfy our *quite > complicated* use case. Here's a bit more de

Re: [WiX-users] Error 1723 when calling CAQuiteExec to xcopy config files

2014-07-08 Thread David Welton
Hi Pally, I have considered CopyFile but didn't think it would satisfy our *quite complicated* use case. Here's a bit more detail: 1- We want to deploy potentially hundreds of files to the Backups folder (Currently we heat the directory to create the wxs file). 2- The Backups folder will potentia

Re: [WiX-users] Error 1723 when calling CAQuiteExec to xcopy config files

2014-07-07 Thread Pally Sandher
Why are you using xcopy at all? CopyFile is a thing which exists -> http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/wix/copyfile.html And then your files will be part of uninstall/rollback/upgrade etc without any extra work. Palbinder Sandher Software Platform Engineer T: +44 (0)141 945 8