Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)

[Simon Topley]

This guy really does role 20's, I'll give it a spin From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 June 2006 10:20 To: 'Simon Topley'; 'Christopher Painter' Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .) Have you looked at dark (the WiX toolset decompiler)?  Dark v3 is particularly solid.  It will drop all of the files and .wxs authoring in such a way that the compiler and linker can put it all back together.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Topley Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 2:26 AM To: 'Christopher Painter' Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)   I have had limited success with MSI2XML. The latest build seems to have installer realted issues but the build before that is stable. It does extract all teh files (including files desine for the windows and system directory, sadly it names them all by the File ID, I suppose I could go through renaming all of the file ID's to there longnames.. This Highlights another issues for me (this applies to the Admin installers too "msiexec /a"). Both of these methods extract the files into a different directory structure from the one used to construct the msi file. So even if I do get one of these to work I will still have to monkey around with the files before I can use them to build a patch from... I'm starting to think that keeping an uncompressed version of any released installers is the only way to do this patch business.   Thanks for the help all the same, if anyone has anything further to add to this, please do...   Simon Topley   From: Christopher Painter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 June 2006 14:54 To: Simon Topley Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .) This open source project MSI2XML does a pretty good job of exporting an MSI database to XML and extracting all of the streams to a subfolder.  Once you've done this you can see the CABs that are stored in the MSI and extract your files from them.   On 6/12/06, Simon Topley <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Hello all, I know this isn't really a WIX problem, however it must be an issue others have seen. "Msiexec /a" is used to create an administrative installer (i.e uncompressed into folders). This little gem works pretty well for the most part, however it never extracts files destine for the windows or system folder... At first I thought it was because of the old condition of the feature (default being 0 not 1) I've changed that and still only get the "Pfiles" folder out or my msi file... Is there any other way to extract the files from an msi file that anyone knows of? For fun I've included a fragment that adds a file to the windows directory, in case someone spots a fundamental problem :     <Fragment Id="fWindowsFiles">         <Directory Id="WindowsFolder" Name="WinFldr">             <Component Id="cHTMLHelpExe" DiskId="1" Guid='B2975E71-5581-4E13-B850-2731A2EFA122' >                 <File Id="file1065" Name="hh.exe" src="" />             </Component>                    </Directory>            </Fragment>    Kind Regards Simon Topley   The information contained in this e-mail is likely to be confidential and may be legally privileged. 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