[WiX-users] "failed to get command line data"

2012-04-12 Thread E. Timothy Uy
Newbie to WiX here. What does "failed to get command line data" really mean? Does it mean it doesn't see my command or does it mean my command doesn't run? I've been able to track down a few threads where folks find solutions, but I'm still not getting things to work. I have a test .exe called Lit

Re: [WiX-users] "failed to get command line data"

2012-04-12 Thread E. Timothy Uy
If I remove "deferred" Action start 17:18:20: InstallFiles. > Action ended 17:18:20: InstallFiles. Return value 1. > Action start 17:18:20: QtExecInstallCmdLineSet. > Action ended 17:18:20: QtExecInstallCmdLineSet. Return value 1. > Action start 17:18:20: QtExecInstallCmdLineRun. > CAQuietExec: E

[WiX-users] wix36.exe -must install to c:?

2012-04-12 Thread Rick Hantz (Hotmail)
My SSD drive is too full. I'm trying to move lots of files off of it. Is there any way to have it install/hack it to work if it was on D:? Thanks, RickH -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 103622 of my spam em

[WiX-users] Burn leaving stub .tmp files in %Temp%

2012-04-12 Thread Bruce Cran
I've noticed that Burn in 3.6 RC0 is leaving DEL.tmp files in %Temp% that are the bootstrapper stub. Should they be getting deleted, or are they being left for debugging for now? -- Bruce Cran -- For Developers, A

Re: [WiX-users] Installer prepending garbage at the beginning of batch file

2012-04-12 Thread E. Timothy Uy
Dear Chris (Robison), Have you tested the original .bat file? I ran into just this issue earlier today. I had written my .bat file from Visual Studio (11) which started as a UTF-8 (or -16 not sure) .txt file. Not surprisingly, it had the BOM appended to the front, which prevented execution. Respe

[WiX-users] UTF-8 and UIExtension collide

2012-04-12 Thread E. Timothy Uy
Hi everyone. I have Chinese characters in a couple of my files, so early on, I had to add Codepage="UTF-8" to my Product tag. Version="1.0.0.4" Manufacturer="xxx" >UpgradeCode="6950706d-de97-499b-9164-c240c0559d72"> This worked very well until I added WixUIExtension to my references

Re: [WiX-users] Installer prepending garbage at the beginning of batch file

2012-04-12 Thread Christopher Painter
Garbage in, garbage out. Sorry, couldn't resist. Seriously though, I've never heard on Windows Installer doing this. Do you have any custom actions that updat the file? Is it possible the file is corrupted during the build process. ( Hence the GIGO joke. )

Re: [WiX-users] Installer prepending garbage at the beginning of batch file

2012-04-12 Thread Chris Robison
Yeah, the UTF-8 suggestion was it. I reencoded the file to ANSI. Thanks so much. Chris 2012/4/12 Dirk Räder > 2012/4/12 Chris Robison : > > I have a batch file that I'm packaging into an installer and when it gets > > installed on a machine, the installer seems to be putting garbage text at > >

Re: [WiX-users] Installer prepending garbage at the beginning of batch file

2012-04-12 Thread Dirk Räder
2012/4/12 Chris Robison : > I have a batch file that I'm packaging into an installer and when it gets > installed on a machine, the installer seems to be putting garbage text at > the beginning of the file. This is causing execution problems. Any > suggestions? > > Chris Hi Chris, usually neither

Re: [WiX-users] Installer prepending garbage at the beginning of batch file

2012-04-12 Thread Daniel Madill
What is the garbage text? My suspicion is that you may have inadvertently saved the batch file as a Unicode file and that there is a Unicode byte-order mark (BOM) at the beginning of the batch file. If so, then open the batch file is Notepad and then choose Save As and explicitly specify the enc

[WiX-users] Installer prepending garbage at the beginning of batch file

2012-04-12 Thread Chris Robison
I have a batch file that I'm packaging into an installer and when it gets installed on a machine, the installer seems to be putting garbage text at the beginning of the file. This is causing execution problems. Any suggestions? Chris

Re: [WiX-users] Burn/Wix queries

2012-04-12 Thread Christopher Painter
A strange scenario. I think what I'd do is install the per-user installer as content when I install the per-machine install. Then when the per-user application get's run, use the content to install the per-user install for the users profile if it's not already installed. I'm not sure I'd nee

[WiX-users] Burn/Wix queries

2012-04-12 Thread Sean Farrow
Hi: I'm currently dealing with an installer that is per-user, and cannot be changed to per-machine. I also have a second installer that is dependent on the per-user installer-this is per-machine. What I need to know is the following: Is there a way of determining where burn has cached a package (

[WiX-users] SQL LocalDB support

2012-04-12 Thread Martin P. Evans
I can't get WIX to create a database in a SQL Express LocalDB instance unless I use the named pipes format. Unfortunately the named pipes name changes each time the instance is started, so this is not viable, even if I could determine the name! It has been suggested (http://social.msdn.microso