Are these two DLL's sensitive? Would you be willing/able to share them
with me to play with?
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From: "Daniel Wenqing Cai" <danielw...@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 11:45 AM
To: "chr...@iswix.com" <chr...@iswix.com>, "General discussion for Windows
Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] GAC .NET assembly along with its dependent .DLL
library
The previously mentioned error turns out to be the dreadful 1935 error. Any
tips that can help me move along will be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Daniel
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From: Daniel Wenqing Cai <danielw...@yahoo.com>
To: "chr...@iswix.com" <chr...@iswix.com>; General discussion for Windows
Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] GAC .NET assembly along with its dependent .DLL
library
Thanks for your reply.
I am actually using CompanionFile attribute to indicate the relationship.
Here are the snippet for the .NET assembly and the dependent library
without brackets.
File Id="msid40.dll" Name="msid40.dll" Source="..\..\lib\msid40.dll"
KeyPath="no" Vital="yes" CompanionFile="MyHelper_GAC_FILE"
File Id="MyHelper_GAC_FILE" Name="MyHelper.dll" KeyPath="yes"
Source="$(var.MyHelper.TargetPath)" Assembly=".net"
What I noticed is, when the two files reside in different components, it
simply doesn't do anything with the dependent library. When the two files
reside in the same component, the installation fails with the following
error.
An error occurred during the installation of assembly 'MyHelper.dll,
version="1.0.0.0", culture="neutral", publicKeyToken="xxxx"'. Please refer
to Help and Support for more information.
Thanks,
Daniel
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From: Christopher Painter <chr...@iswix.com>
To: Daniel Wenqing Cai <danielw...@yahoo.com>; General discussion for
Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>;
wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 4:31 PM
Subject: re: [WiX-users] GAC .NET assembly along with its dependent .DLL
library
I haven't done this with WiX but I have done it with InstallShield. In
that case instead of making the unmanaged DLL a keyfile of it's own
component I made it a companion file of the managed assembly that was being
installed to the GAC.
In that situation MSI and/or .NET (fusion API) figured out the relationship
and the two files were published atomically into the GAC as expcted.
I don't see the wxs snippet that you say followed so I'm not sure what you
are currently doing in WiX.
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From: "Daniel Wenqing Cai" <danielw...@yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 5:10 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] GAC .NET assembly along with its dependent .DLL
library
Hi,
I am new to WiX. I have a special situation that I need some help.
My problem is, my .NET assembly needs to be deployed to GAC, but the
assembly has a dependency on a third-party unmanaged library which is
written by Microsoft. I need to deploy the .NET assembly to GAC, at the
same time, the unmanaged library should go to the same GAC folder.
I have tried many different options with no success. The following is the
trimmed down version of my .wxs file.
<Directory Id="DummyGACFolder" Name="DummyGACFolder">
<Component Id="MSID40_GAC"
Guid="6D399A09-0D8C-4C21-B69B-F4A369D168C5">
<File Id="msid40.dll" Name="msid40.dll"
Source="..\..\lib\msid40.dll" KeyPath="no" Vital="yes"
CompanionFile="MyHelper_GAC_FILE" />
</Component>
<Component Id="MyHelper_GAC"
Guid="0A9E1305-4BC1-4E2E-8AF9-92C18E561C60">
<File Id="MyHelper_GAC_FILE" Name="MyHelper.dll"
KeyPath="yes" Source="$(var.MyHelper.TargetPath)" Assembly=".net" />
</Component>
</Directory>
I also tried different combinations of AssemblyApplication and
AssemblyManifest, none of them seems to serve this purpose.
I have been able to use GACUTIL /i MyHelper.dll command line to deploy them
together to GAC without problem. I can see the two files (MyHelper.dll and
msid40.dll) in the GAC folder.
The above .wxs does deploy MyHelper.dll to GAC, but not the dependent
library (msid40.dll).
Can someone please point me to the right direction?
Thanks,
Daniel
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