[wix-users] Visual C++ 2015 Redistributables

[Edwin Castro]

I started the thread referenced by Phill.

In my experience, you can safely remove Protocol="burn" if it makes
you more comfortable. Leaving it in doesn't appear to change the hang
behavior and I don't expect it have any effect.

The broken version of burn used by Microsoft requires an interactive
session causing a hang when run in a service context because session 0
does not allow interactive applications BUT I've seen this behavior
ONLY on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 (not Windows Server 2008
R2). I have never seen burn hang on Windows 7 or later.

Can you post the burn log? I want to see the last logged line occurs
in the same spot as I saw it on Windows Server 2008.

Also, can you confirm whether you are installing under a service context?

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Edwin G. Castro

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Phill Hogland
<phill.hogland at rimage.com> wrote:
> There were posts to this list a couple of weeks ago when someone was launching there bundle in the context of a service account.  It was suggested in that thread that the 'hang' was related to a wix bug, which was fixed some time ago, but it appears that the vcredist folks did not use the fixed code, if that suggestion is correct, which is something to work with Microsoft on.  However I have never used the Protocol="burn", and I have not seen the 'hang' issue.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Kelly Graus
> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 12:33 PM
> To: wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
> Subject: [wix-users] Visual C++ 2015 Redistributables
>
> Does anyone have a good handle on how to deal with the Visual C++ 2015 Redistributables?  For previous versions we have used merge modules, but apparently that no longer works with VC2015 - Visual Studio 2015 installs merge modules on my development machine, and I am able to build an installer using them, but after installing on a Windows 7 machine my application displays an error message ("api-ms-win-crd-runtime-l1-1-1.dll is missing”).
>
> This blog post (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2015/03/03/introducing-the-universal-crt.aspx <http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2015/03/03/introducing-the-universal-crt.aspx>) says that merge modules are no longer supported, and we need to use Windows Update (which I guess means we would tell our customers to update?), include vcredist.exe in our installer, or do a local install (which I’m avoiding since I want security updates to be automatically applied), so vcredist it is...
>
> I’ve updated our burn bundle to silently install vcredist.exe based on samples I’ve found online using previous versions of the redistributable.  On the same Windows 7 machine, the bootstrapper starts installing vcredist and then gets stuck, with no progress made (I’ve let it run for several hours just to make sure).  Below is the xml I’m using (minus redacted details).
>
> Can anyone provide any clarity to this situation? Also, is the test I’m using valid, or is there a better way to determine if the package is already installed? I’ve found a few registry keys I may be able to use, but haven’t found an official method.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Kelly
>
>
> <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi” xmlns:bal="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/BalExtension"xmlns:util="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension">
>
> <?define ProductVersion=“x.x.xx" ?>
> <?define Manufacturer=“Acme" ?>
>
> <Bundle Name="$(var.ProductName)" Version="$(var.ProductVersion)" Manufacturer="$(var.Manufacturer)” UpgradeCode="$(var.UpgradeCode)" IconSourceFile="..\Resources\Installer.ico">
>
> <BootstrapperApplicationRef Id="WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.RtfLicense" >
>   <bal:WixStandardBootstrapperApplication LicenseFile="Resources\License.rtf” LogoFile=“Resources\Logo.png” SuppressOptionsUI="yes" /> </BootstrapperApplicationRef>
>
> <Chain>
>   <PackageGroupRef Id="redist"/>
>   <MsiPackage SourceFile="$(var.MsiPath)" DisplayInternalUI="no">
>     <MsiProperty Name="ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT" Value="1"/>
>   </MsiPackage>
> </Chain>
> </Bundle>
>
> <!-- CRT Redist -->
> <Fragment>
>   <util:FileSearch Id="MFC140_Version_x86" Variable="MFC140_Version_x86" Path="[SystemFolder]mfc140.dll" Result="version" />
>   <PackageGroup Id="redist_vc140">
>     <ExePackage Id="vc140" Cache="yes" PerMachine="yes" Permanent="yes" Vital="yes" Compressed="yes"SourceFile="resources/vc_redist.x86.exe" InstallCommand="/quiet /norestart" InstallCondition="(NOT MFC140_Version_x86 >= v14.0.23026) OR NOT MFC140_Version_x86" Protocol="burn" />
>   </PackageGroup>
> </Fragment>
>
> <Fragment>
>   <PackageGroup Id="redist">
>     <PackageGroupRef Id="redist_vc140"/>
>   </PackageGroup>
> </Fragment>
> </Wix>
>
>
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