I'm no expert, but I can't imagine it is a good idea to use your
SystemFolder as a source. In our deployments, I usually make it a condition
: third party tools should be installed as prerequisites, with installers
provided (vb runtimes in your case).
If you really need to have the files included, why not copy them to two
locations in your source directory, and use Msbuild. Set, say, $(dllsource),
then reference that within your wxs.
If I had to take a stab in the dark, I'd say [SystemFolder] depends on the
context you are running under.
K
On 8/13/07, Ansuya Negi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
> I am using 64 bit machine and need to install few dlls.
> For files Msvbvm50.dll and Msvbvm60.dll:
>
> To do:
> <File Id="file2" Name="Msvbvm50.dll" Source="[SystemFolder]Msvbvm50.dll"
> />
>
> Gave error:
> File of type 'File' with name '[SystemFolder]Msvbvm50.dll' could not be
> found.
>
> So used:
>
> <?define SystemSource = "..\..\..\Windows\System32"?>
>
> <File Id="file2" Name="Msvbvm50.dll"
> Source="$(var.SystemSource)\Msvbvm50.dll" />
> <File Id="file3" Name="msvbvm60.dll"
> Source="$(var.SystemSource)\msvbvm60.dll" />
>
>
> light.exe : error LGHT0001 : Unknown error while getting version of file:
> C:\Windows\System32\msvbvm60.dll,
>
> system error: 2
>
> Exception Type: System.Runtime.InteropServices.ExternalException
>
> Stack Trace:
> at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Msi.MsiBase.FileVersion(String
> filePath, String& version, String&
>
> language)
> at
> Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Binder.UpdateFileInformation(Output
> output)
> at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Binder.Bind(Output output)
> at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Light.Run(String[] args)
>
> ----- Finished
>
>
> So used proper system directory for 64 bit:
> <?define SystemSource64 = "..\..\..\Windows\SysWOW64"?>
>
> <File Id="file2" Name="Msvbvm50.dll"
> Source="$(var.SystemSource64)\Msvbvm50.dll" />
> <File Id="file3" Name="msvbvm60.dll"
> Source="$(var.SystemSource64)\msvbvm60.dll" />
>
> Worked. But it fails the purpose of having [SystemFolder], which should
> have
> checked for 32 or 64 bit versions.
> Is there a way to check 32 or 64 bit version before compiling.
>
> Thanks,
> Ansuya
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