[wix-users] Using 3rd Party dlls in wix cuation action c++ dll

[Stephens, Rich]

If the DLLs are all managed code, you can just include them as references in your custom action project and set them to "copy local".
This will automatically include them in the MSI and they will be available to the custom action at install time.

Rich Stephens  |  Bottomline Technologies
770-576-3623  |  rstephens at bottomline.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of John Cooper
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 9:43 AM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Using 3rd Party dlls in wix cuation action c++ dll

You need to store and extract the DLL plus all its dependencies.

For the scenario you are attempting, I would recommend storing and extracting the DLL's from the Binary Table.

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John Merryweather Cooper
Senior Software Engineer | Integration Development Group | Enterprise Notification Service Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext:  431050 |JoCooper at jackhenry.com




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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of shashank khadse
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Hello ,
I am trying to use an api from a 3rd party dll ( this dll again has few 4-5 dependency dlls ) in my wxi custom action dll project.

So technically this dll ( and also its dependent dlls ) won't be bundled up inside the msi but will be needed to execute the setup at runtime.

I tried following options ]
1> Execute the installer from the same directory as that of the 
1> dependent
dlls.

2> Add the path of the of the dependent dlls into system path variable (
this would be taken care by installer during installation..right now I am doing it maunally ) so that the setup.exe/msi file would get the dll path from system path to execute the custom action at runtime.

in  both the cases I am getting an error as

Can anybody suggest me any solution to call the 3rd party api from a dll ( taking of care of the dependent dlls of the 3rd party dll ) ??

Thanks -
Shanky

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