Re: [WiX-users] Compiler extension - how to include a custom action?
This isn't quite as magical as it sounds. I think your problem is that you think that you're REbuilding the extension, while it does some kind of incremental build. I've seen this happen a lot, but was never able to track the root cause. PS: you have a lot more source code in http://msiext.codeplex.com. We welcome contributors. dB. @ dblock.org Moscow|Geneva|Seattle|New York -Original Message- From: Nick Ramirez [mailto:nickra...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 5:45 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Compiler extension - how to include a custom action? Oookay. So, now it's one of those situations where it didn't work and magically...it does! What did I do? I messed around with flags for lit.exe, removed them, changed things back to what they were orginally...rebuilt everything and it worked. So, same code, different result. I'm not sure. I think I'll try everything from scratch with a new solution and see what happens. Thanks for the help! -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Compiler-extension-how-to-include-a-custom-action-tp5271086p5272081.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Compiler extension - how to include a custom action?
There is also http://wixcontrib.codeplex.com that has a couple small extensions. Contributions are welcome there as well. On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:33 AM, dB. dbl...@dblock.org wrote: This isn't quite as magical as it sounds. I think your problem is that you think that you're REbuilding the extension, while it does some kind of incremental build. I've seen this happen a lot, but was never able to track the root cause. PS: you have a lot more source code in http://msiext.codeplex.com. We welcome contributors. dB. @ dblock.org Moscow|Geneva|Seattle|New York -Original Message- From: Nick Ramirez [mailto:nickra...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 5:45 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Compiler extension - how to include a custom action? Oookay. So, now it's one of those situations where it didn't work and magically...it does! What did I do? I messed around with flags for lit.exe, removed them, changed things back to what they were orginally...rebuilt everything and it worked. So, same code, different result. I'm not sure. I think I'll try everything from scratch with a new solution and see what happens. Thanks for the help! -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Compiler-extension-how-to-include-a-custom-action-tp5271086p5272081.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Compiler extension - how to include a custom action?
Thanks Rob. I'd love to contribute. Where do you need more eyes? As for the compiler extension, I'm back to where I was. I haven't been able to get Candle to recognize the embedded wixlib in my compiler extension. Experimenting with several ideas, I've added the Link element to my build script, thinking that might be it, but it didn't solve the problem. I have this in my extension's csproj file now: ItemGroup EmbeddedResource Include=..\Output\CustomExtensionLibrary.wixlib LinkLibrary\CustomExtensionLibrary.wixlib/Link /EmbeddedResource /ItemGroup If I use Reflector on my built assembly, I see that the wixlib, xsd and xml file are embedded. I used the -bf flag on the wixlib so that it binds the data into it. It's so strange. When I use my extension, the custom table is added to the MSI, but nothing from the wixlib (CustomAction table, Binary table). I wonder if there's something I'm missing in the csproj file for the extension? I see that the examples use WixBuild.Common.targets. Do I need to import this too and add extra MSBuild elements? I'm still not quite sure how to debug Candle. Does anyone have experience doing it? I'm using WiX 3.0 in Visual Studio 2008. Thanks for the help everyone. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Compiler-extension-how-to-include-a-custom-action-tp5271086p5285053.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Compiler extension - how to include a custom action?
I've got an update. I've gotten my wixlib to show up in my MSI! The trick, for me, was to add a Property to the Fragment in the wixlib I was embedding and then use a PropertyRef to pull it in in my installer project. Pulling that in pulled in all the other stuff (including custom actions) from the wixlib (since it was all in the same fragment). Is this normal? GetLibrary doesn't do it alone? You have to use a reference element too? -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Compiler-extension-how-to-include-a-custom-action-tp5271086p5285151.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Compiler extension - how to include a custom action?
When you add rows to your table, do you make a reference to one of the items in your wixlib? That is usually needed to cause the appropriate fragments to be included when your schema is translated into table entries. The usual way is in your C# code use the CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow() method on the Core property of your CompilerExtension's base object. Most of us use the name of our CustomAction. -Original Message- From: Nick Ramirez [mailto:nickra...@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 2:47 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Compiler extension - how to include a custom action? Thanks Rob. I'd love to contribute. Where do you need more eyes? As for the compiler extension, I'm back to where I was. I haven't been able to get Candle to recognize the embedded wixlib in my compiler extension. Experimenting with several ideas, I've added the Link element to my build script, thinking that might be it, but it didn't solve the problem. I have this in my extension's csproj file now: ItemGroup EmbeddedResource Include=..\Output\CustomExtensionLibrary.wixlib LinkLibrary\CustomExtensionLibrary.wixlib/Link /EmbeddedResource /ItemGroup If I use Reflector on my built assembly, I see that the wixlib, xsd and xml file are embedded. I used the -bf flag on the wixlib so that it binds the data into it. It's so strange. When I use my extension, the custom table is added to the MSI, but nothing from the wixlib (CustomAction table, Binary table). I wonder if there's something I'm missing in the csproj file for the extension? I see that the examples use WixBuild.Common.targets. Do I need to import this too and add extra MSBuild elements? I'm still not quite sure how to debug Candle. Does anyone have experience doing it? I'm using WiX 3.0 in Visual Studio 2008. Thanks for the help everyone. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Compiler-exten sion-how-to-include-a-custom-action-tp5271086p5285053.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Compiler extension - how to include a custom action?
GetLibrary simply adds the library to the other compiled wix code that light uses to link. There has to be some reference from somewhere for light to not throw out the fragment as unreferenced. That is the reason most compiler extensions use CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow to create references to appropriate things in the embedded library's Fragments. -Original Message- From: Nick Ramirez [mailto:nickra...@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 3:21 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Compiler extension - how to include a custom action? I've got an update. I've gotten my wixlib to show up in my MSI! The trick, for me, was to add a Property to the Fragment in the wixlib I was embedding and then use a PropertyRef to pull it in in my installer project. Pulling that in pulled in all the other stuff (including custom actions) from the wixlib (since it was all in the same fragment). Is this normal? GetLibrary doesn't do it alone? You have to use a reference element too? -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Compiler-exten sion-how-to-include-a-custom-action-tp5271086p5285151.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Compiler extension - how to include a custom action?
Ah, fantastic. That sounds like a much more elegant solution that using a PropertyRef. Thanks Blair. So, it looks like this method is referencing a table and row that would be created with the wixlib. Like this from the Util extension. core.CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow(sourceLineNumbers, CustomAction, WixSchedInternetShortcuts); I'll try that out. Thanks for the tip! -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Compiler-extension-how-to-include-a-custom-action-tp5271086p5285857.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Compiler extension - how to include a custom action?
On 7/8/2010 5:00 PM, Nick Ramirez wrote: At the risk of sounding completely clueless, how does one debug an extension project? It seems that the GetLibrary function's parameters are populated by Candle. Do I debug Candle somehow? Sure. Set a breakpoint in your extension's methods and run Candle under a debugger. Or use ILDasm or Reflector to verify things like resource names. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Compiler extension - how to include a custom action?
Oops. Sorry. I posted the wrong part of the code. Here's the part that I use
to register the .wixlib:
public override Library GetLibrary(TableDefinitionCollection
tableDefinitions)
{
if (this.library == null)
{
this.library = LoadLibraryHelper(
Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(),
SuperWixExtension.SuperWixExtensionLibrary.wixlib,
tableDefinitions);
}
return this.library;
}
Thank,
Nick
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Re: [WiX-users] Compiler extension - how to include a custom action?
No an answer but have you seen this: http://wixcontrib.codeplex.com/, it
taught me quite a lot about writing an extension.
Neil
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From: Nick Ramirez [mailto:nickra...@hotmail.com]
Sent: 08 July 2010 18:13
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Compiler extension - how to include a custom
action?
Oops. Sorry. I posted the wrong part of the code. Here's the part that I
use
to register the .wixlib:
public override Library GetLibrary(TableDefinitionCollection
tableDefinitions)
{
if (this.library == null)
{
this.library = LoadLibraryHelper(
Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(),
SuperWixExtension.SuperWixExtensionLibrary.wixlib,
tableDefinitions);
}
return this.library;
}
Thank,
Nick
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Re: [WiX-users] Compiler extension - how to include a custom action?
Did you run the extension in the debugger and verify that it was really
returning an object (and not null)?
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From: Nick Ramirez [mailto:nickra...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 10:13 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Compiler extension - how to include a custom
action?
Oops. Sorry. I posted the wrong part of the code. Here's the part that I use
to register the .wixlib:
public override Library GetLibrary(TableDefinitionCollection
tableDefinitions)
{
if (this.library == null)
{
this.library = LoadLibraryHelper(
Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(),
SuperWixExtension.SuperWixExtensionLibrary.wixlib,
tableDefinitions);
}
return this.library;
}
Thank,
Nick
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Re: [WiX-users] Compiler extension - how to include a custom action?
Thanks Blair and Neil for the help. I looked at the extension you gave a link to, Neil, but I'm not able to see anything that they have that I don't. I'm sure there's a piece to the puzzle I'm missing. At the risk of sounding completely clueless, how does one debug an extension project? It seems that the GetLibrary function's parameters are populated by Candle. Do I debug Candle somehow? And then how do I get it to use my extension outside of an installer project? Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Compiler-extension-how-to-include-a-custom-action-tp5271086p5271955.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Compiler extension - how to include a custom action?
Where is your wixlib located? Is it in the root of your project?
I my extension the wixlib is in a Data folder, so the full path is
MyNamespace.Data.Filename.wixlib.
From your I would expect your namespace to be SuperWixExtension and
the filename SuperWixExtensionLibrary.wixlib located in the root of
your project.
Hope this helps.
Neil
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From: Nick Ramirez [mailto:nickra...@hotmail.com]
Sent: 08 July 2010 18:13
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Compiler extension - how to include a custom
action?
Oops. Sorry. I posted the wrong part of the code. Here's the part that I
use
to register the .wixlib:
public override Library GetLibrary(TableDefinitionCollection
tableDefinitions)
{
if (this.library == null)
{
this.library = LoadLibraryHelper(
Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(),
SuperWixExtension.SuperWixExtensionLibrary.wixlib,
tableDefinitions);
}
return this.library;
}
Thank,
Nick
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Re: [WiX-users] Compiler extension - how to include a custom action?
Oookay. So, now it's one of those situations where it didn't work and magically...it does! What did I do? I messed around with flags for lit.exe, removed them, changed things back to what they were orginally...rebuilt everything and it worked. So, same code, different result. I'm not sure. I think I'll try everything from scratch with a new solution and see what happens. Thanks for the help! -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Compiler-extension-how-to-include-a-custom-action-tp5271086p5272081.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
