OK, so i've made some head way. I now have 2 custom action assemblies with 12 and 13 custom actions respectively, and a third "helper" assembly with common code needed for both sets of custom actions. Once I got everything compiling and rebuilt, I ran my install and got the following errror:
Error 1723: There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A DLL required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personal or package vendor. Can anyone tell me how I can determine what DLL it is talking about Should I be able to have a custom action helper assembly? How do I deploy it so that it can be called from the custom actions? Thanks! -Tina On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Tina Basinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Okay, i'll proceed with the first option to clean up some of our existing > custom actions, and see where that leaves me. > Thanks! > -Tina > > > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Jason Ginchereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Wow, that's a lot of custom actions. Most setups (should) have just a few >> if any. The limit of 16 is currently by design, although the tool should >> definitely handle the overflow more gracefully. I'll fix that. >> >> If you have more than 16 custom actions, your options are: >> >> 1. Design immediate CAs to iterate over rows in a table or behave >> differently based on property data instead of the entrypoint name. Or for >> deferred CAs, schedule them with an immediate CA and pass parameters via >> CustomActionData (a common pattern). >> >> 2. Split your custom actions across multiple assemblies, each having less >> than 16. >> >> 3. Edit the headers for the SfxCA stub to reserve more space, and rebuild >> it. Additional entrypoint slots will need to be defined in EntryPoints.def >> and EntryPoints.h. >> >> -Jason- >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Tina Basinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:39 AM >> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. >> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Debugging MakeSfxCA >> >> OK, this seems to be failing on the following line of code, which is line >> 424 in MakeSfxCA.cs. >> >> entryPoints.Keys.CopyTo(slotSort, slotCount - entryPoints.Count); >> It's failing because slotCount = 16 and entryPoints.Count = 38, so >> slotCount-entryPoints.Count is negative. Apparenlty sfxCA.dll only has 16 >> entry points? What does one do if you have more custom actions than that? >> >> Thanks! >> -Tina >> >> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Jason Ginchereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >wrote: >> >> > There's no way to get a more detailed error printout without modifying >> the >> > code of the MakeSfxCA tool. >> > >> > The easiest way to diagnose the issue would be to capture the >> command-line >> > from your build log and then launch that same command-line in a >> debugger: >> > devenv /debugexe MakeSfxCA.exe <parameters> >> > >> > If you don't have it already, the source code for MakeSfxCA can be found >> in >> > wix3-sources.zip, in the src\dtf\Tools\MakeSfxCA directory. >> > >> > Or, if you can send me enough info / files to reproduce the error, I'll >> > look into it. >> > >> > -Jason- >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Tina Basinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 2:05 PM >> > To: Wix Group >> > Subject: [WiX-users] Debugging MakeSfxCA >> > >> > Any tips on figuring out MakeSfxCA errors? I'm getting the following >> > output >> > when calling MakeSfxCA.exe from the command line. >> > >> > ... >> > CA_Name=Fully_Qualified_CA_Name >> > Modifying SfxCA.dll stub >> > Error: Non-negative number required. >> > Parameter name: index >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's >> > challenge >> > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great >> > prizes >> > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the >> world >> > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >> > _______________________________________________ >> > WiX-users mailing list >> > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's >> > challenge >> > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great >> > prizes >> > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the >> world >> > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >> > _______________________________________________ >> > WiX-users mailing list >> > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's >> challenge >> Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great >> prizes >> Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the >> world >> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >> _______________________________________________ >> WiX-users mailing list >> WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's >> challenge >> Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great >> prizes >> Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the >> world >> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >> _______________________________________________ >> WiX-users mailing list >> WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
