OK, I know it's not the best way to install things with WiX, but my product
includes a DirectShow filter, and they create some random binary registry
entry on selfRegistration, so I have little choice but to register it as
self reg.
unfortunatley, because it depends on the DirectShow samples in the SDK, it
also ends up depending on the latest version of the run time libraries (at
least I couldn't get it to build without them being dynamically linked).
So, I'm stuck.
I've authored the following to selfreg after I've installed the msm's for
vs2005:
<Component Id="AxGrab" Guid="{MYGUIDS}">
<File Id="axgrab" Name="grabber.ax"
Source="..\Grabber\Release\grabber.ax" />
</Component>
then to declare the custom actions, I add:
<CustomAction Id="regGrabber" Execute="commit"
Directory="INSTALLLOCATION" ExeCommand='"[SystemFolder]msiexec" /y
"[#axgrab]"' Impersonate='no' />
<CustomAction Id="unregGrabber" Execute="commit"
Directory="INSTALLLOCATION" ExeCommand='"[SystemFolder]msiexec" /x
"[#axgrab]"' Impersonate='no' />
<CustomAction Id="rollbackGrabber" Execute="rollback"
Directory="INSTALLLOCATION" ExeCommand='"[SystemFolder]msiexec" /x
"[#axgrab]"' Impersonate='no' />
finally, in the install execute sequence I add:
<InstallExecuteSequence>
...
<Custom Action="unregGrabber"
Before="SelfUnregModules">$AxGrab=2</Custom>
<Custom Action="regGrabber" Before="InstallFinalize"
>$AxGrab>2</Custom>
<Custom Action="rollbackGrabber" After="regGrabber"
>$AxGrab>2</Custom>
...
</InstallExecuteSequence>
I haven't checked my logs yet as I've had to do a full restore to get back
to a known state, but while uninstalling, I got the message "are you sure
you wan't to uninstall", and regardless of how i answer, the uninstall rolls
back and says there's some error. That may not be to do with this though,
as some other weirdness is also going on calling DPInst.exe to install a
device driver.
Does the above sequence look like the right sequencing and conditions for
the CustomActions?
Should I be ignoring the return codes using Return="ignore"
Anthony Wieser
Wieser Software Ltd
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