[wix-users] Wix managed custom action DLL is not working in deployable system

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You can use DependencyWalker tool to find out dependency missing. Sometimes simply double clicking the dll will also throw popup indicating what missing 

Thx
Manish 

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> On May 8, 2019, at 8:33 AM, Edwin Castro via wix-users <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
> 
> This certainly smells like a dependency problem.
> 
> I don't have experience with *managed* C++ custom actions so I'm going to
> miss something here or there, but for native C++ custom actions you really
> want to statically link all your dependencies to avoid this problem. The
> difficulty with dependencies is that the Windows Installer will *only*
> extract the binary associated with the custom action DLL. This means that
> any dependencies *must* be "installed" prior to custom action use. If your
> dependency is used only in your custom action, then you are installing code
> that is only used during setup.
> 
> I vaguely remember there being a way to document which dependencies are
> required for managed custom actions so that they can be packaged and
> automatically extracted and used during setup *but* I don't know how to do
> this. Perhaps I'm just imaging this and there really is no way to do this.
> 
> If you are already writing your custom action in C++ then is it possible to
> make it a native C++ custom action and statically link all your
> dependencies?
> 
> --
> Edwin G. Castro
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 4:31 AM Sebastian, ChinchuX via wix-users <
> wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>> Could you please help us to solve the below mentioned issue
>> We have tried the Wix managed custom action C++ method and created a
>> Customaction.dll and passed the input parameters from product.wxs and
>> created a product.msi
>> 
>> Issues
>> Build msi is working on our system but it is not working on another
>> system(deployable system).
>> Is that because of missing dependencies? We have copied all supporting DLL
>> with the msi. Still not working.
>> Does it have any dotnet dependencies?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> Chinchu
>> 
>> 
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