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,
you'll kill it stone dead if you try to replace ntdll.dll (which must be an
exact match with the kernel build, or the system likely won't boot). There
are a few updated components that can be installed on NT 4.0, for example
OLEAUT32, but if you need them, you should be using the merge modules
(generally from Visual Studio 6 SP6). I believe you should use a
<Dependency> element under the <Module> element to indicate that your merge
module requires these other modules.
Note that if you're using VS6SP6 merge modules, see
http://installsite.org/pages/en/bugs_msi.htm#wimsm for information on known
issues with these merge modules.
Also, that version of light is extremely old - the current version on the
SourceForge project site is 2.0.4820.0 (15 months newer) and the current 2.0
weekly is 2.0.4908.0 (released on Monday).
--
Mike Dimmick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Chin
Sent: 11 January 2007 19:24
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] light.exe hangs
I am running light.exe from binaries-2.0.3309.0.zip and it seems hangs when
trying to build a 125 MB merge module. I was running with -v0 and -notidy
options and could see that after all the Cabbing the last thing it logged
was:
Importing streams.
Importing binary stream from 'C:\WINNT\system32\rpcrt4.dll'.
Importing binary stream from 'C:\WINNT\system32\oleaut32.dll'.
Importing binary stream from 'C:\WINNT\system32\msvcrt.dll'.
Importing binary stream from 'C:\WINNT\system32\gdi32.dll'.
Importing binary stream from 'C:\WINNT\system32\comdlg32.dll'.
Importing binary stream from 'C:\WINNT\system32\odbc32.dll'.
Importing binary stream from 'C:\WINNT\system32\kernel32.dll'.
Importing binary stream from 'C:\WINNT\system32\ntdll.dll'.
Importing binary stream from 'C:\WINNT\system32\shlwapi.dll'.
Importing binary stream from
's:/Ainstall/matlab/pbr/mcr/../../install/bin/win32
\frameworktest\frameworktest.dll'.
Importing binary stream from 'C:\WINNT\system32\advapi32.dll'.
Importing binary stream from 'C:\WINNT\system32\odbccp32.dll'.
Importing binary stream from
's:/Ainstall/matlab/pbr/mcr/../../install/bin/win32
\uninstallmcrpath\uninstallmcrpath.dll'.
Importing binary stream from 'C:\WINNT\system32\shell32.dll'.
Importing binary stream from 'C:\WINNT\system32\user32.dll'.
Importing binary stream from 'C:\WINNT\system32\ole32.dll'.
Importing binary stream from 'C:\WINNT\system32\msi.dll'.
It never got to print out "Laying out media."
It also may have hung the machine since nothing is responding at this point.
This only happens sometimes. It works fine on other machines. Has anyone
seen this before?
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