Hi everyone, I was trying to integrate the ODP.NET (basically the stripped down Oracle Client setup) into our product setup. Don't bother thinking whether this is a proper way to do it.. It was decided by the management. I've first tried to execute the installation directly via a CustomAction:
<CustomAction Id="OdpNet.Install" FileKey="File_FF_998" ExeCommand='"some working parameters"' Execute="deferred" Return="check" /> <InstallExecuteSequence> <Custom Action="OdpNet.Install" Before="InstallFinalize">$Component_FF_999 > 2</Custom> </InstallExecuteSequence> This because of the nature of ODP.NET bootstrap was throwing a timeout error during the installation. The most probable cause is that a bootstrap's main process spawned other separated process(es) which performed the installation. But after spawning the new process(es) the main process terminated (and moreover with invalid exit code). So the ODP.NET installation was performed correctly but the main WiX installer was rollbacked. So I tried another approach. I made the batch file which executes the installation and then terminates correctly. The OdpNet.Install action is the last action in the installer so I considered it safe enough (yeah I told the boss million times not to do it this way altogether). This can ofcourse cause the installation to be successful even when the ODP.NET installation failed. But I was told that this is acceptable (sure they want that ODP.NET integrated so badly). The batch file is basically: cd install setup.exe -silent -sourceLoc "..\stage\products.xml" -responseFile %1 cd.. Now the problems are: 1) The batch file works when executed standalone. But the setup.exe is not executed while the batch is executed from the WiX installation (weird). How to make it run ? 2) A minor one.. The batch file when executed opens a new console window which is inacceptable by the team management. Can it be executed silently (no UI) somehow ? I'm using WiX 2.0 and MSBuild (if anyone cares). regards, Kate -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-execute-a-program-from-batch-which-is-executed-from-WiX---tp17775581p17775581.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
