Sorry, I've got no experience with .NET so I can't really help you there. However Rob makes a good point, why do it manually if it's already supported elsewhere in WiX?
Also, from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dkkx7f79.aspx there's this note: > Gacutil.exe is only for development purposes and should not be used to > install production > assemblies into the global assembly cache. Sascha On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Rob Mensching <[email protected]> wrote: > Uhh, gacutil.exe isn't redistributable. I think you are violation a > license agreement if you ship it in your product. Why not just use the > File/@Assembly element? > > little.forest wrote: >> Thanks Sascha. >> >> Yes, I'm looking at it and having this piece of code which doesn't work: >> <Component Id="Component_Gacutil_EXE" Guid="..."> >> <File Id="GacutilExe" Source="gacutil.exe" KeyPath="yes" Checksum="yes"/> >> </Component> >> <Component Id="Component_DotNet_CLR" Guid="..."> >> <File Source="CLR.dll" KeyPath="yes" Checksum="yes"/> >> </Component> >> ... >> <CustomAction Id="RunGacutilExeOnInstall" >> FileKey="GacutilExe" >> ExeCommand='/i "[INSTALLLOCATION]CLR.dll"' >> Return="asyncWait" /> >> <CustomAction Id="RunGacutilExeOnUninstall" >> FileKey="GacutilExe" >> ExeCommand='/u "[INSTALLLOCATION]CLR.dll"' >> Return="asyncWait" /> >> >> <InstallExecuteSequence> >> <Custom Action="RunGacutilExeOnInstall" After="InstallFiles">NOT >> Installed</Custom> >> <Custom Action="RunGacutilExeOnUninstall" >> After="InstallInitialize">Installed</Custom> >> </InstallExecuteSequence> >> ... >> <ComponentRef Id="Component_DotNet_CLR" /> >> <ComponentRef Id="Component_Gacutil_EXE" /> >> >> Basically, a few problems: >> 1. During installation, nothing happened. >> 2. During uninstall, I'd like to run "gacutil.exe /u CLR.dll". However, >> since it never got a chance to run in installation, I guess it never got run >> in uninstall. Does the code look alright or not? >> >> Could any of you please point out the errors? I really appreciate it. >> >> Thanks a lot, >> /Brian >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Sascha Beaumont <[email protected]> >> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. >> <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:07:49 PM >> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to run another program before >> launching the main application >> >> Check out the documentation, specifically "ShellExecute CustomAction" >> and "How To: Run the Installed Application After Setup" in WiX.chm >> >> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:13 AM, little.forest <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> We are using WiX version 3.0.4805.0. >>> >>> How to run another program before launching the main application? >>> We have a program called preutil.exe. We need to run it with some arguments >>> like this "preutil.exe /i /t /s". 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