Re: [WiX-users] Get MSI logs when Burn chain failed

2012-03-01 Thread Peter Hull
As I understand it, if you run the setup program from the command line with the /log filename option you will get a log from burn and then a separate file from the msi if it runs at all. If I get problems I usually try to install the bare msi first and then if that is OK I can assume it's somet

[WiX-users] Fragments

2012-03-01 Thread Troy Teixeira
Good morning, In a pre-build step we are running Heat.exe, which generates a file with a number of fragments. How would I embed this fragment file into my main file, yielding a composite source file? Thanks, Troy -- Vi

Re: [WiX-users] Check running installer by Administrator or not

2012-03-01 Thread Chad Petersen
Is this happening across all supported operating systems or have you been able to narrow it down to something like Windows 2008 Server and Windows 7, for example? Sounds like UAC *might* be involved. When logged in as the Domain User in Administrators group do a right click on your MSI and choose "

[WiX-users] How to reference a wxs file from another

2012-03-01 Thread Troy Teixeira
I know that this is a very elementary question since I'm new to this, but could someone tell what lines of code I would add to a WXS file to reference it to one containing Fragments. I have a Product.wxs file and another wxs file named Directory.wxs which contains a bunch of Fragments. How can

Re: [WiX-users] How to reference a wxs file from another

2012-03-01 Thread John Cooper
You need a reference element to any one bit inside the fragment. The way Wix linking currently works, a linkage to one item in a fragment brings in the whole fragment. For example, if you have a Component element in a fragment, you would link in the fragment using a ComponentRef with the appro

Re: [WiX-users] How to reference a wxs file from another

2012-03-01 Thread John H Bergman (XPedient)
Are you are using the built-in Visual Studio 2010 support, and have a WiX Library and a WiX Setup Project? -Original Message- From: Troy Teixeira [mailto:tteixe...@polariswireless.com] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 2:58 PM To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How to

Re: [WiX-users] How to reference a wxs file from another

2012-03-01 Thread Ian Williams
Yep, you need to reference something in a fragment (DirectoryRef, ComponentRef, etc) to load the fragment (it will all be loaded, note). Also remember to include allt he .wxs files in your call to candle and light. Ian -Original Message- From: John Cooper [mailto:jocoo...@jackhenry.com]

[WiX-users] Burn: multiple packages in one fragment

2012-03-01 Thread Sven Riede
Hi, I am using WiX 3.6.2221.0 to create a bootstrapper that - among others - installs .NET Framework 4. To be flexible whether to download or embed the package I created two package groups within one fragment in a WXS file: http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/5/A/

[WiX-users] Wow!

2012-03-01 Thread John H Bergman (XPedient)
It's been a while since I updated, so I grabed the latest build and installed it... I just wanted to take a minute to say KUDOS! The new installer (metro-ized) is an awesome improvement! Nice work! -- Virtualization &

Re: [WiX-users] Visual Studio 11 Support Timeline?

2012-03-01 Thread Rob Mensching
Latest WiX v3.6 builds support Dev11. You may need to run devenv.exe /setup right now... we're trying to track down a real answer on that. On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 6:15 PM, John H Bergman (XPedient) < john.berg...@xpdnt.com> wrote: > I know, Day 1 support of Visual Studio 11 is unlikely, improbabl

Re: [WiX-users] Are compiler extensions available for Light as they are for candle?

2012-03-01 Thread Rob Mensching
I'm still a little fuzzy on the requirement but based on my interpretation of your text, that sounds exactly like problem a BinderFileManager would solve. On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:46 AM, McCain, Jon wrote: > Rob, > > Are build architecture provides the ability to have multiple paths defined > a

Re: [WiX-users] Get MSI logs when Burn chain failed

2012-03-01 Thread Rob Mensching
Yes, that is *exactly* what the LogPathVariable is for. On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Henning Krause wrote: > Hi, > > I have a burn chainer which installs an MSI. If the MSI fails (error 1603), > I only get said error code in the burn log (msi failed with error > 0x80070643). That's not very h

Re: [WiX-users] Fragments

2012-03-01 Thread Rob Mensching
The linker usually does that for you as long as there is a reference to something in each Fragment. On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Troy Teixeira wrote: > Good morning, > > In a pre-build step we are running Heat.exe, which generates a file with a > number of fragments. How would I embed this fr

Re: [WiX-users] Visual Studio 11 Support Timeline?

2012-03-01 Thread John H Bergman (XPedient)
What happened to wix.targets? After I Updated tonight, several of my builds broke (I used the methodology that copies the wix binaries into the source tree to build so I don't have to update the build server to use the tools) -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensch

Re: [WiX-users] Visual Studio 11 Support Timeline?

2012-03-01 Thread John H Bergman (XPedient)
You guys are Awesome! -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 10:45 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Visual Studio 11 Support Timeline? Latest WiX v3.6 builds support Dev11.

Re: [WiX-users] Visual Studio 11 Support Timeline?

2012-03-01 Thread John H Bergman (XPedient)
My Bad, I forgot, I had to copy the targets files from the MSBuild/Microsoft/Wix/v3.x directory as well... Sorry about that. -Original Message- From: John H Bergman (XPedient) [mailto:john.berg...@xpdnt.com] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 10:58 PM To: General discussion for Windows Ins