Re: [WiX-users] Burn - InstallAnywhere ExePackage
Hi, I guess I have to go the same way for the PostgreSQL installer (made with bitrock). How do you have created the stub EXE? Is ther something within the WIX toolset or do I have to create a C# project? Best regards, Thomas Von:jhennessey jack.hennes...@hyland.com An: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Datum: 29.08.2012 07:32 Betreff:Re: [WiX-users] Burn - InstallAnywhere ExePackage UPDATE: OK, using the recommendation of creating a stub EXE I have got this working. Here's what I did in case anyone else needs to handle this type of installer. 1. Created a stub executable that manages the installation and removal of the package. The stub exe does a few things: a) Parses some command line parameters (to pass the install / uninstall). b) Launches the specified executable. c) Returns the exit code from the launched process (so burn knows if it failed or succeeded). 2. In order to determine if the actual package was installed, I used a burn file search (since I knew where the uninstall.exe file should be) and used that variable for the ExePackage/@DetectCondition. This way the package would be installed if the file wasn't found. 3. Added a Payload element for the real install package. In the end here is an example of what my WiX authoring looked like: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? Wix xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi; xmlns:util=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension; Fragment util:FileSearch Path=[ProgramFilesFolder]MyCompany\MyProduct\uninstall\uninstall.exe Variable=ThirdPartyUninstallExecutable/ PackageGroup Id=ThirdPartyProduct ExePackage Id=ExePackageStub_ThirdPartyProduct DisplayName=Third Party Product Description=Third Party Product PerMachine=yes SourceFile=C:\Visual Studio Projects\Bootstrapper1\ExePackageStub\ExePackageStub.exe DetectCondition=ThirdPartyUninstallExecutable InstallCommand='-ExeFile ThirdPartyInstall.exe -ExeCommandLine -i silent -DUSER_INSTALL_DIR=\[ProgramFilesFolder]MyCompany\MyProduct\ -DREGISTER_UNINSTALLER_WINDOWS=FALSE' UninstallCommand='-ExeFile [ThirdPartyUninstallExecutable] -ExeCommandLine -i silent' Payload SourceFile=C:\Visual Studio Projects\Bootstrapper1\ThirdParty\ThirdPartyInstall.exe / /ExePackage /PackageGroup /Fragment /Wix So, as you can see, I used the ExePackage/@InstallCommand and ExePackage/@UninstallCommand to pass my stub EXE the information I needed to run the install or uninstall. If you are installing an InstallAnywhere package the -DREGISTER_UNINSTALLER_WINDOWS=FALSE switch prevents it from adding an entry in ARP. Another tip, for the exe stub, if you are using the http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682425%28v=vs.85%29.aspx CreateProcess function be sure that the first part of the command line is the full path to the executable you are launching. Hope this helps someone (and thanks for the initial suggestion)! -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Burn-InstallAnywhere-ExePackage-tp7580040p7580152.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Burn - InstallAnywhere ExePackage
I just created a stand-alone executable. As long are you already require .NET then it makes sense to do it in C#. In my particular case I did it in vc++ (and statically linked the runtime) so I could use it for both native and managed bundles. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Burn-InstallAnywhere-ExePackage-tp7580040p7580315.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Burn - InstallAnywhere ExePackage
UPDATE: OK, using the recommendation of creating a stub EXE I have got this working. Here's what I did in case anyone else needs to handle this type of installer. 1. Created a stub executable that manages the installation and removal of the package. The stub exe does a few things: a) Parses some command line parameters (to pass the install / uninstall). b) Launches the specified executable. c) Returns the exit code from the launched process (so burn knows if it failed or succeeded). 2. In order to determine if the actual package was installed, I used a burn file search (since I knew where the uninstall.exe file should be) and used that variable for the ExePackage/@DetectCondition. This way the package would be installed if the file wasn't found. 3. Added a Payload element for the real install package. In the end here is an example of what my WiX authoring looked like: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? Wix xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi; xmlns:util=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension; Fragment util:FileSearch Path=[ProgramFilesFolder]MyCompany\MyProduct\uninstall\uninstall.exe Variable=ThirdPartyUninstallExecutable/ PackageGroup Id=ThirdPartyProduct ExePackage Id=ExePackageStub_ThirdPartyProduct DisplayName=Third Party Product Description=Third Party Product PerMachine=yes SourceFile=C:\Visual Studio Projects\Bootstrapper1\ExePackageStub\ExePackageStub.exe DetectCondition=ThirdPartyUninstallExecutable InstallCommand='-ExeFile ThirdPartyInstall.exe -ExeCommandLine -i silent -DUSER_INSTALL_DIR=\[ProgramFilesFolder]MyCompany\MyProduct\ -DREGISTER_UNINSTALLER_WINDOWS=FALSE' UninstallCommand='-ExeFile [ThirdPartyUninstallExecutable] -ExeCommandLine -i silent' Payload SourceFile=C:\Visual Studio Projects\Bootstrapper1\ThirdParty\ThirdPartyInstall.exe / /ExePackage /PackageGroup /Fragment /Wix So, as you can see, I used the ExePackage/@InstallCommand and ExePackage/@UninstallCommand to pass my stub EXE the information I needed to run the install or uninstall. If you are installing an InstallAnywhere package the -DREGISTER_UNINSTALLER_WINDOWS=FALSE switch prevents it from adding an entry in ARP. Another tip, for the exe stub, if you are using the http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682425%28v=vs.85%29.aspx CreateProcess function be sure that the first part of the command line is the full path to the executable you are launching. Hope this helps someone (and thanks for the initial suggestion)! -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Burn-InstallAnywhere-ExePackage-tp7580040p7580152.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Burn - InstallAnywhere ExePackage
I was wondering if anyone out there has had the unfortunate task of trying to bootstrap an InstallAnywhere package? I ask because apparently to uninstall these types of packages you need to launch an uninstall.exe file that gets installed by the setup executable. That being the case it appears burn won't be able to handle removal of these natively (because it knows nothing about the uninstall.exe and you can't tell it to launch an arbitrary executable). I really can't believe there is no way to launch an uninstall from the original install package (please let me know if I'm wrong here). Does anyone know a hack to get this to work or have any other advice on how to deal with InstallAnywhere? -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Burn-InstallAnywhere-ExePackage-tp7580040.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Burn - InstallAnywhere ExePackage
Yeah, sadly we totally missed this pattern of exe installers in the first version of Burn. On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:41 AM, jhennessey jack.hennes...@hyland.comwrote: I was wondering if anyone out there has had the unfortunate task of trying to bootstrap an InstallAnywhere package? I ask because apparently to uninstall these types of packages you need to launch an uninstall.exe file that gets installed by the setup executable. That being the case it appears burn won't be able to handle removal of these natively (because it knows nothing about the uninstall.exe and you can't tell it to launch an arbitrary executable). I really can't believe there is no way to launch an uninstall from the original install package (please let me know if I'm wrong here). Does anyone know a hack to get this to work or have any other advice on how to deal with InstallAnywhere? -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Burn-InstallAnywhere-ExePackage-tp7580040.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- virtually, Rob Mensching http://RobMensching.com LLC -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Burn - InstallAnywhere ExePackage
Yeah I have never even been exposed to this type of installer until very recently. Should I file a bug for 3.7 to track this? -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Burn-InstallAnywhere-ExePackage-tp7580040p7580047.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Burn - InstallAnywhere ExePackage
I really don't like this approach, but in theory could you not create a Stub EXE that would take an install or uninstall parameter and would have to have the knowledge of the InstallAnywhere package? You could then bundle this stub with your InstallAnywhere package. -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 9:53 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn - InstallAnywhere ExePackage Yeah, sadly we totally missed this pattern of exe installers in the first version of Burn. On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:41 AM, jhennessey jack.hennes...@hyland.comwrote: I was wondering if anyone out there has had the unfortunate task of trying to bootstrap an InstallAnywhere package? I ask because apparently to uninstall these types of packages you need to launch an uninstall.exe file that gets installed by the setup executable. That being the case it appears burn won't be able to handle removal of these natively (because it knows nothing about the uninstall.exe and you can't tell it to launch an arbitrary executable). I really can't believe there is no way to launch an uninstall from the original install package (please let me know if I'm wrong here). Does anyone know a hack to get this to work or have any other advice on how to deal with InstallAnywhere? -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Burn-Ins tallAnywhere-ExePackage-tp7580040.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- virtually, Rob Mensching http://RobMensching.com LLC -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Burn - InstallAnywhere ExePackage
Good idea, I'm going to look into this approach and post back if I'm successful...thanks for the idea! -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Burn-InstallAnywhere-ExePackage-tp7580040p7580050.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Burn - InstallAnywhere ExePackage
That's exactly what you'd have to do in this case. Honestly, it's not much different than what Burn would have to do in this case as well. I dislike this design for uninstalls. sigh/ On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Hoover, Jacob jacob.hoo...@greenheck.comwrote: I really don't like this approach, but in theory could you not create a Stub EXE that would take an install or uninstall parameter and would have to have the knowledge of the InstallAnywhere package? You could then bundle this stub with your InstallAnywhere package. -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 9:53 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn - InstallAnywhere ExePackage Yeah, sadly we totally missed this pattern of exe installers in the first version of Burn. On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:41 AM, jhennessey jack.hennes...@hyland.com wrote: I was wondering if anyone out there has had the unfortunate task of trying to bootstrap an InstallAnywhere package? I ask because apparently to uninstall these types of packages you need to launch an uninstall.exe file that gets installed by the setup executable. That being the case it appears burn won't be able to handle removal of these natively (because it knows nothing about the uninstall.exe and you can't tell it to launch an arbitrary executable). I really can't believe there is no way to launch an uninstall from the original install package (please let me know if I'm wrong here). Does anyone know a hack to get this to work or have any other advice on how to deal with InstallAnywhere? -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Burn-Ins tallAnywhere-ExePackage-tp7580040.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- virtually, Rob Mensching http://RobMensching.com LLC -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
