Re: [WiX-users] daisy chaining DLLs in custom actions

2008-11-20 Thread Oren Mazor
For closure, and all future google searches that end up here: the task of getting my hands on a lib to just link into my action dll resulted in my getting my hands on a merge module that just does everything for me. thanks everybody for your suggestions! Oren On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Rich

Re: [WiX-users] daisy chaining DLLs in custom actions

2008-11-19 Thread Richard
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Oren Mazor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what about creating a separate feature+component that installs that > DLL into the temp folder, somewhere, does the evaluation required, and > then does a rollback? You can't rollback features, only products. The ty

Re: [WiX-users] daisy chaining DLLs in custom actions

2008-11-19 Thread Oren Mazor
what about creating a separate feature+component that installs that DLL into the temp folder, somewhere, does the evaluation required, and then does a rollback? actually, that may not be possible, since my custom actions need to occur before launch conditions, which occurs before any features coul

Re: [WiX-users] daisy chaining DLLs in custom actions

2008-11-19 Thread Kelly Leahy
Oren, you should include tools.dll as a resource inside CustomActions.dll (or just include it at the end of the file using some mechanism whereby you can pull it back out), and then extract it to a temp folder during your initial processing in CustomActions.dll and load it using LoadLibrary.

Re: [WiX-users] daisy chaining DLLs in custom actions

2008-11-19 Thread Brian Simoneau
If you own the code for tools.dll, you can change it to a library and link the library in CustomActions.dll. Otherwise, you will have to extract tools.dll onto the system before using it. There is no built-in way to do this. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: Oren Mazor [mailto: