WcaLog just calls MSI APIs. You might try debugging down to see if the MSI
API calls are return failures.
I've never seen a problem with logging except that you can't log at all from
a button push.
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Fangren <tim.kr...@shavlik.com> wrote:
>
> I have a custom action that does not log no matter what method is used to
> turn logging on. Even though it executes correctly. I can see the
> property
> being set in the log and the custom action begin and end.
>
> Code example (made generic):
>
> extern "C" UINT __stdcall MyCustomAction(MSIHANDLE install)
> {
> CUSTOM_ACTION_BEGIN
> {
> HRESULT hr = ::WcaInitialize(install, "MyCustomAction");
> if (FAILED(hr))
> {
> return ERROR_INSTALL_FAILURE;
> }
>
> ::WcaLog(LOGMSG_STANDARD, "Establishing MyCustomAction");
>
> std::wstring info = GenerateInfo();
> SaveMsiProperty(install, L"REGISTEREDINFO", info);
>
> ::WcaLog(LOGMSG_VERBOSE, "Info is %S", info);
>
> return ::WcaFinalize(ERROR_SUCCESS);
> }
> CUSTOM_ACTION_END
> }
>
>
> Based on research it appears there is a bug in wcautil that prevent
> deferred
> custom actions from logging. Looking into this I found the following:
>
> http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/07/15/verbose-logging-from-wcautil/
> In the comments is the mention of a bug being created in 2008.
>
> I did find a similar bug on SouceForge: ID 1845036.
>
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1845036&group_id=105970&atid=642714
>
> This bug was closed because they weren't sure how to reproduce it. I have
> been able to consistently reproduce this through use of deferred custom
> actions. Logging works as expected in my non-deferred custom actions.
>
> Does anyone know if this has been fixed yet? If not is there a method to
> re-open the bug or should I submit a new one?
>
> I did try this in a 3.5 based build and the same problem still existed.
>
>
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