subject:"Re\: \[WiX\-users\] light.exe hangs"

Re: [WiX-users] light.exe hangs

2007-01-12 Thread Steven Chin

nt: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:56 PM To: Steven Chin; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] light.exe hangs Er... I really hope that message doesn't mean what I think it means. Why the heck are you including a ton of operating system binaries in your merge module? No

Re: [WiX-users] light.exe hangs

2007-01-11 Thread Mike Dimmick

Er. I really hope that message doesn't mean what I think it means. Why the heck are you including a ton of operating system binaries in your merge module? None of them will install on a modern machine, because Windows File Protection will prevent them being installed; on a Windows NT 4.0 machine, y

Re: [WiX-users] light.exe hangs

2007-01-11 Thread Rob Mensching

Hmm, that's weird. There's nothing in the ImportStreams() method that would seem to hang. Can you maybe get a debugger attached to the hung process and get a callstack? And then let it run a little longer and get another callstack (to see if it deadlocked or just in an infinite loop)? If the