I would probably be doing two Components as you mention in your last attempt. The ICE30 error is probably related to duplicate shortnames. You can probably get around this by specifying your own shortnames rather than having WiX generate them for you. It might be giving each Component the same shortname, or trying to anyway. I'd be looking at that since I agree you can't condition a ServiceControl by itself from the look of it.
-----Original Message----- From: Andreas Hirth [mailto:a.hi...@luratech.com] Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 8:59 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Conditionally install executable as service Hi all, I struggle with writing a WiX installer that can conditionally install an executable as Windows service. The executable can be run as Windows service but it is not required to. The user should get an option to install the service during setup or not. The option could be in form of a feature "Install as Windows Service". I'm stuck because the ServiceInstall element has no condition and always refers to the KeyPath file of its Component. My last attempt was to have two Components installing the same file, one with ServiceInstall, the other without. But besides not being a very elegant approach it's not working (ICE30). Is there any solution out there you know of or would the only way to write my own custom action for this? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Andreas ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
