How about creating a simple exe and dll in VC++ and try that, it might help to identify the problem. Also, have you checked the eventlog, sometimes issues are reported there.
Neil -----Original Message----- From: Natalie Carr [mailto:natalie.c...@measuresoft.com] Sent: 25 January 2013 12:11 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom actions failing on XP Thanks for your help Peter, I have no idea why it is not running...:( Kind Regards, Natalie Carr -----Original Message----- From: Peter Shirtcliffe [mailto:pshirtcli...@sdl.com] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 12:03 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom actions failing on XP Multithreaded ought to be fine - I was referring to the dynamically/statically linking options (lib vs dll), but if you've already got the runtimes on the machine, then it wasn't the problem I was thinking about. -----Original Message----- From: Natalie Carr [mailto:natalie.c...@measuresoft.com] Sent: 25 January 2013 11:24 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom actions failing on XP Hi Peter, I am using the Multi-threaded for the runtime? Would that be causing the issue? Thanks for getting back to me Kind Regards, Natalie Carr -----Original Message----- From: Peter Shirtcliffe [mailto:pshirtcli...@sdl.com] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 10:53 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom actions failing on XP Have you tried linking to the C++ runtimes statically instead of to the DLLs ? The target runtime might be missing on XP. -----Original Message----- From: Natalie Carr [mailto:natalie.c...@measuresoft.com] Sent: 25 January 2013 10:35 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Custom actions failing on XP Hi along with my wix installer I have a dll created using the C++ custom action project. However on running my setup on XP the custom actions are all returning value 3 and failing. 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