My searchFu has not been particularly strong the last few days and I'm
hopeful someone on this list can point me in the right direction.

I need to call a C API as part of my bootstrapper to determine if a
particular feature exists on chip. The result of the C API call will then be
used to determine if one of my prerequisites should be installed or not.
Today we use WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.HyperlinkSidebarLicense so
keeping all that basic functionality would be a really nice to have. My
initial knee jerk reaction was to try to write the equivalent of a burn
custom action that could set a property that could be used in an
InstallCondition but it appears this is not a valid approach. Instead it
appears I need to write my own bootstrapper application. :-(

I've been trying to search for a tutorial for newbies that explains how to
write my own bootstrapper application. My searches have discovered a number
of managed bootstrapper application tutorials, templates, etc., but I have
not found anything for a native bootstrapper application which I think would
be the prefered option if I need to create an entire bootstrapper
application.

How do I write/build a custom native bootstrapper application?

Can I somehow update
WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.HyperlinkSidebarLicense with my required
C API call to determine whether one of the packages should be installed?

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Edwin G. Castro



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