I haven't tried this yet, but it looks like you could just pass the additional DLL's name to MakeSfxCA.exe to include additional files with your CA.
-----Original Message----- From: Blair Murri [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 2:13 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions that need to call unmanaged DLL In managed CAs using DTF you can include unmanaged DLLs in much the same way you can include dependent assemblies and they will be extracted alongside your CA's main assembly. Blair > From: jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > CC: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 04:33:27 +0000 > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions that need to call unmanaged > DLL > > 1) yes > 2) you could > 3) yes, you could but you would need to manually extract the dll in you > managed ca (after embedding it in the msi) and then pinvoke that dll. Fairly > certain .net requires the native libs to exist as its loading your assembly, > so you would need to build the reference to the native lib manually. > > If you own this dll, then I'd just expose a ca entry point in it and avoid > all the complexities/chances for failure. > > If you need a functional example of a dynamic/runtime pinvoke, look for .net > code calling DllRegisterServer. > > Sent from my phone > > On Jul 1, 2013, at 7:12 PM, "George Fleming" <gef...@microsoft.com> wrote: > > > I would like do something like this: > > > > CustomActions.cs: > > > > [CustomAction] > > Public static ActionResults MyCustomAction(Session session) { > > ... > > NativeMethod.XYZ xyz = new NativeMethod.XYZ(); } > > > > NativeMethods.cs: > > > > internal static class NativeMethods > > { > > Internal class XYZ > > { > > XYZ() { > > ... > > XYZInternalFunc(); > > } > > > > [DllImport("XYZ")] > > Static extern private UInt32 > > XYZInternalFunc(); > > } > > } > > > > Questions: > > > > > > 1. Is this possible? > > > > 2. Do I need to deploy XYZ.dll in same directory as my MSI file? > > > > 3. Is it possible to bundle the XYZ.dll so that just the MSI is > > sufficient to do the installs? > > > > Thanks, > > > > George > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---------- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > > > Build for Windows Store. > > > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > Build for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
