Re: [WiX-users] Windows Service is not started/Custom Actions Fail in vista

2008-02-06 Thread Wilson, Phil
ssage- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sneha Gharpure Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 6:35 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Windows Service is not started/Custom Actions Fail in vista Thanks for the reply. The problem is that th

Re: [WiX-users] Windows Service is not started/Custom Actions Fail in vista

2008-02-06 Thread Johan Appelgren
Does your service depend on MSVC DLLs that you are installing, or just the custom action exe that starts the service? If your service does not depend on anything installed in the GAC or winsxs you could just the ServiceControl table instead. Otherwise static linking to the dlls will work, or sched

Re: [WiX-users] Windows Service is not started/Custom Actions Fail in vista

2008-02-06 Thread Sneha Gharpure
Thanks for the reply. The problem is that the exe that starts the service is running as a custom action. This exe depends on MSVC DLLs. During installation, this custom action is failing. I believe that this is because the DLLs are not available till InstallFinalize and the custom action is sched

Re: [WiX-users] Windows Service is not started/Custom Actions Fail in vista

2008-02-06 Thread Anidil
This is a problem with UAC on Windows Vista.Disable UAC from User accounts,restart the system and try starting the service.. Sneha Gharpure wrote: > > Hi, > > The problem is that service is not starting on Vista. The service is being > started through one of the custom actions which is an exe

Re: [WiX-users] Windows Service is not started/Custom Actions Fail in vista

2008-02-05 Thread Sneha Gharpure
Thanks for your reply. I have added those DLLs as components in the msi. Custom action that is running depends on these DLLs. This custom action is a deferred custom action and is scheduled between InstallInitialize and Installfinalize. So, is there any way by which we can make these DLLs availa

Re: [WiX-users] Windows Service is not started/Custom Actions Fail in vista

2008-02-05 Thread Wilson, Phil
What exactly does "deployed along with the package" mean? If they're merge modules for C++ support on VC++ 2005 or 2008 they aren't committed into the file system until InstallFinalize at the end of the install. Vista uses the same deployment model for these as for assemblies into the GAC. Phil