Thank you very much for your reply. We are planning on providing this part
of the install to third parties, so the merge module approach is desirable.
My answers in bold.
- The exact version of WiX you're using, including build number;
We are using Wix build 3.0.2925.0
- The name and version of the tool used to build the final .msi;
We are using Votive v3
- If you have access to Orca, or another tool for viewing .msm contents, the
contents of the ModuleInstallExecuteSequence table from the .msm
(specifically the SchedXmlFile row).
This is the part that has me stumped. This is the contents of the
SchedXmlFile row:
Action: SchedXmlFile
Sequence: [blank]
BaseAction: InstallFiles
After: 1
Condition: [blank]
Looking at this, you would think SchedXmlFile would occur after
InstallFiles, but it doesn't seem to work this way.
Any thoughts?
Mike Dimmick-2 wrote:
Merge modules are for providing to third parties, for them to integrate
into
their installers. If you're only using this common code in-house, in other
WiX-based installers, I recommend building and sharing a .wixlib instead
(or
you can simply share the .wxs source code, the .wixlib simply saves some
compilation time).
Sharing components between product installers is being de-emphasised as it
leads to trouble with servicing - you cannot target a component with a
patch, only a product, so if a defect is discovered in a common component,
all products which installed that component have to be patched, unless
some
other mechanism is available to redirect clients to the new version (e.g.
publisher policy in .NET and Win32 assemblies).
In answer to your question, the scheduling of custom actions contained in
a
merge module is controlled by the ModuleInstallExecuteSequence table.
Unlike
in the master InstallExecuteSequence table, the merge module can specify a
sequence relative to a base action rather than a specific sequence. The
absolute sequence number is resolved when the module is merged in. This
requires that a merge tool is used which understands this - the standard
mergemod.dll does.
WiX interprets InstallExecuteSequence elements to generate rows in the
InstallExecuteSequence for the main installer, if building an .msi (the
Product element) or in the ModuleInstallExecuteSequence for a merge
module. The standard scheduling of SchedXmlFile, as of at least 3.0.3502,
is
to come after InstallFiles, but this can be overridden in your own
InstallExecuteSequence.
To confirm the problem could you post:
- The exact version of WiX you're using, including build number;
- The name and version of the tool used to build the final .msi;
- If you have access to Orca, or another tool for viewing .msm contents,
the
contents of the ModuleInstallExecuteSequence table from the .msm
(specifically the SchedXmlFile row).
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Subject: [WiX-users] Using XmlFile in a merge module
I currently have an MSI Wix project that (among other things) copies an
xml
file and makes modifications to it using util:XmlFile. I am in the
process
of converting this project to a merge module (MSM), but when I include the
merge module in another install, I get an error saying there was a failure
while configuring XML files.
I then noticed that I get this error before the xml file had been copied
(which would explain the error). I did not have this problem when I was
building an msi file. Looking at the log file, the failure is in
SchedXmlFile, which is occurring before any files have been copied.
If I remove the XmlFile commands, the install runs without any problems.
Is there a reason why this is happening in the merge module when it didn't
in the msi? Is there anyway to control when SchedXmlFile runs?
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