Hi, you say you have managed to put the things your bat did into an exe. So why not just turning that exe into a dll and use this directly? Why is there a need for that wrapper?
Btw. does your code require elevation? Then you might run into problems on Vista and above when scheduling your action like this. You would need to ensure that your msi is always executed elevated, e.g. by using a bootstrapper with appropriate manifest. Andreas > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Markey [mailto:paul_mar...@hotmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 10:59 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] (no subject) > > > > Okay I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out my following wix problem > but I've yet to find an solution that works. > > The original goal was to run a bat file that had already been written right > at the welcome screen that would do a hardware requirements pre-check at the > beginning of the install and exit with an appropriate error dialog box if the > conditions were not met without installing anything. > > At this point of the install you are unable to run a bat file because the > files haven't been transferred to the local disk yet. So I figured I'd > convert > the batch file into an exe file and store it in the binary table and create a > custom action of type 2. So when the user clicks on the next button from the > welcome screen the exe is called from the binary table and executed. I > managed > to do this and everything looked great but there was no way to get the exit > code > from the exe so I couldn't spawn an error dialog if the hardware check failed. > Wix only passes back a failed bat file if it's unable to properly execute > it. > > So I figured I could write a C++ dll wrapper that would allow me to run the > exe and then set an msi property based upon the exit code of the exe. Setting > the property was no issue however I'm unable to get the location of the exe > file > that's stored in the binary table to the dll so that it can execute the > executable. > > Essentially I can't find the executable (or have a link to it) that enables > me to run it from the dll. Is there a solution to this issue or the first > issue > of dealing with exit codes from a exe. I haven't been able to find a solution > to either of these two items and I've spent a fair bit of time working on this. > I need help. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: > > Show off your parallel programming skills. > Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
