Thanks. Sometimes the obvious thing is the thing you overlook. This code had been working just fine for many years (under 3.5) and now it is failing (under 3.7) all because we aren't initializing our pointers to null before call WcaGetProperty.
Thanks for the tip! Tristen Fielding -----Original Message----- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 1:04 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Cc: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WcaGetProperty is returning OutOfMemory Error... Just a guess but you aren't initializing your pointer to null. Possibly the API is trying to free the old string before allocating a new one... On Mar 20, 2013, at 11:45 AM, "Tristen Fielding" <tfield...@tradestation.com> wrote: > We have a custom action that was working just fine in 3.5, we are upgrading > to 3.7 and have noticed that for some reason we are getting an Out of Memory > errors anytime we call WcaGetProperty. > > Our first entry point is called BeginInstall and here are the first few lines > of code: > > > UINT __stdcall BeginInstall(MSIHANDLE hModule) { > CheckForDebugBreak(); > > HRESULT hr=::WcaInitialize(hModule, "BeginInstall"); > ExitOnFailure(hr, "failed to initialize"); > > // Test code... > LPWSTR installFolder; > hr=::WcaGetProperty(L"INSTALLDIR", &installFolder); > ExitOnFailure(hr, "failed to get INSTALLDIR property value"); > ... > > Our current thinking is that somehow we are linking to the wrong version of > wcautil.lib. We are using VS2012 building against VS2010 tool set, but we > have tried both VS2012 and VS2010 both are failing with the same error code. > Any idea? > > > Tristen Fielding > Sr. Software Developer / Program Lead > TradeStation Group, Inc. > http://www.TradeStation.com<http://www.tradestation.com/> > > 8050 SW 10th Street, Suite 2000 > Plantation, FL 33324 > Tel. 954.652.7320 > Fax 954.652.5320 > > > > TradeStation Group, Inc. is the parent company of four operating > subsidiaries, TradeStation Securities, Inc. (Member NYSE, FINRA, SIPC and > NFA), IBFX, Inc. (Member NFA), TradeStation Technologies, Inc., a trading > software and subscription company, and TradeStation Europe Limited, a United > Kingdom, FSA-authorized introducing brokerage firm. None of these companies > provides trading or investment advice, recommendations or endorsements of any > kind. The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity > to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged > material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or > taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or > entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received > this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any > computer. Forex products and services are offered by TradeStation Forex, a > division of IBFX, Inc. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite > for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users TradeStation Group, Inc. is the parent company of four operating subsidiaries, TradeStation Securities, Inc. (Member NYSE, FINRA, SIPC and NFA), IBFX, Inc. (Member NFA), TradeStation Technologies, Inc., a trading software and subscription company, and TradeStation Europe Limited, a United Kingdom, FSA-authorized introducing brokerage firm. None of these companies provides trading or investment advice, recommendations or endorsements of any kind. The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Forex products and services are offered by TradeStation Forex, a division of IBFX, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
