Re: [WiX-users] SxS MFC merge module needs to write to System32. Why?

2012-08-06 Thread Chris Dahl
ms Windows Installer wasn't properly checking to see if the file already existed either (or we were including a more recent version). - Chris. -Original Message- From: Bruce Cran [mailto:br...@cran.org.uk] Sent: Tuesday, 31 July 2012 8:26 PM To: Chris Dahl Cc: wix-users@lists.sourcefo

Re: [WiX-users] SxS MFC merge module needs to write to System32. Why?

2012-07-31 Thread Chris Dahl
_RemoveFilePath entry is missing after the 'TypeLib' line provide any clues? What does _RemoveFilePath do? Thanks Bruce, really appreciate the assistance. - Chris. On 31/07/12 8:10 PM, "Bruce Cran" wrote: >On 31/07/2012 11:06, Chris Dahl wrote: >> And I also ran the inst

Re: [WiX-users] SxS MFC merge module needs to write to System32. Why?

2012-07-31 Thread Chris Dahl
ER: Did detect that a critical application holds file[s] in use, so a reboot will be necessary. MSI (s) (A8:A8) [19:50:34:538]: Note: 1: 1610 - Chris. On 31/07/12 6:34 PM, "Chris Dahl" wrote: >Thanks Bruce. > >I looked at the CBS.log file to get some further information. An

Re: [WiX-users] SxS MFC merge module needs to write to System32. Why?

2012-07-31 Thread Chris Dahl
ot to complete operation. MSI (s) (80:AC) [18:19:16:592]: No System Restore sequence number for this installation. - Chris. On 31/07/12 4:41 PM, "Bruce Cran" wrote: >On 30/07/2012 23:59, Chris Dahl wrote: >> My question then is how can I using Wix set the entry to *not* &g

Re: [WiX-users] SxS MFC merge module needs to write to System32. Why?

2012-07-30 Thread Chris Dahl
Thanks to Bob for pointing out that the VC10 merge module no longer installs to the winsxs directory. Now it installs to Windows\System32. My question then is how can I using Wix set the entry to *not* try to install the VC10 merge module if it already exists on the system? The problem we are

[WiX-users] SxS MFC merge module needs to write to System32. Why?

2012-07-29 Thread Chris Dahl
As part of our MSI installer we include the VC100_MFC and VC100_CRT merge modules, and we expect them to be written to a SxS location in %windir%\winsxs\. However, we've troubleshooting an issue at the moment where in the event viewer on Windows it shows that the installer needs access to the lo