[wix-users] Calling DLL Interfaces from Wix

Thu Feb 28 02:46:47 PST 2019

I'm asking myself at this point why Difx was depreciated.

If there's some UI you can't get away from in some scenario, for instance, or what?

If it's not a UI thing, maybe someone wouldn't mind helping out a task of putting together a DriverWixExt that would mimic the authoring of the now deprecated scheme and using the new APIs in a professional way, covering rollbacks, etc.

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Subject: RE: [wix-users] Calling DLL Interfaces from Wix

Besides the custom action in your DLL you also have to get your driver, inf,
and cat files from the installer to the disk so you can do the actual driver
install.

Bill Wandel

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I have seen this link. Need one help.
How can I call any dll Interface from Wix? Any pointers?

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This webpage, perchance?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/install/difx-guide
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Thanks. I heard from few folks saying "Difx" will not be supported by
Microsoft going forward. So I am trying to write DLL which uses windows APIs
to install the driver.

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Subject: RE: Calling DLL Interfaces from Wix

Not sure if this will help, but WiX comes with an extension to install
drivers:
http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/difxapp/driver.html

But back to your question, you might have to 'wrap' your C DLL with a C++ or
C# custom action DLL, i.e. use DllImport

i.e.:
[DllImport("advapi32.dll", EntryPoint = "CloseServiceHandle")]
        public static extern int CloseServiceHandle(IntPtr hScObject);

Steve

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> Hi,
> We have written DLL using C code and exposed few interfaces like below.
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> 1.       InstallDriver (Inf file, HWID)
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> 2.       UnInstallDriver (Inf file, HWID)
> We are able to test this with testapp. Can you please let me know how
> to
use
> the DLL from Wix and call the Interfaces using Custom action?
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