Have you installed the windows sdk?
One thing we did was take all of the files for the prereq's and check them into
source control... it made it a lot more reliable to reference that,rather than
the SDK (which, gets installed inconsistently in my opinion because I had to
install 6.0a, 7.0 and 7.1 to get all the prereqs we needed until I moved them
into version control.
-Original Message-
From: daniel.knoep...@noser.com [mailto:daniel.knoep...@noser.com]
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 3:34 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Visual Studio Bootstrapper- define order of prerequisites
to be installed
Hi
Our wix installer makes use of the visual studio 2008 bootstrapper
functionality to install Windows Installer 3.1, .NET 3.5 SP1 and Crystal
reports.
This used to work but suddenly there is an error when i start the setup on a
clean machine. After aggreeing to the licence files of crystel reports and of
the .NET framework (windows installer is already on the machine) it starts
installing crystal reports but it fails.
In my opinion, the reason for this is the fact that crystal reports gets
installed bevore the .NET framework, which is not the case. How can i ensure
the order in which the prerequisites are installed? I tried to change the
crystal reports package so it depends on the .NET framework but with no success.
Parts of prerequisite package.file (product.xml) from crystal reports:
DependsOnProduct Code=Microsoft.Net.Framework.3.5.SP1 /
!--
it actually depends on .Net 2.0 but this way we ensure .net framework is
installed first
DependsOnProduct Code=Microsoft.Net.Framework.2.0 / --
/RelatedProducts
Here is our visual studio project file:
ItemGroup
BootstrapperFile Include=Microsoft.Windows.Installer.3.1
ProductNameWindows Installer 3.1/ProductName
/BootstrapperFile
BootstrapperFile Include=Microsoft.Net.Framework.3.5.SP1
ProductName.NET Framework 3.5 SP1/ProductName
/BootstrapperFile
BootstrapperFile Include=BusinessObjects.CrystalReports.10.5
ProductNameCrystal Reports/ProductName
/BootstrapperFile
/ItemGroup
Target Name=AfterBuild
GenerateBootstrapper ApplicationFile=Msi\InstallerCaller.msi
ApplicationName=Calibrate BootstrapperItems=@(BootstrapperFile)
ComponentsLocation=Relative CopyComponents=True
OutputPath=bin\$(Configuration)\ Path=$(ProjectDir)\Prerequisites
Culture=de-de FallbackCulture=en-us
/GenerateBootstrapper
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