[wix-users] Custom Action to Create and Install a File?

[Russell Haley]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 11:57 PM Edwin Castro <egcastr at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 10:17 PM Russell Haley <russ.haley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The Action executes, but I am not getting any values in the deferred
>> CustomAction? This is confirmed in my log files:
>> ...
>> Action 21:47:33: Configure.LuaRocks.
>> MSI (s) (A4:1C) [21:47:33:332]: Executing op:
>> CustomActionSchedule(Action=Configure.LuaRocks,ActionType=1025,Source=BinaryData,Target=ConfigureLuaRocks,CustomActionData=LuaRocksConfigPath=;LuaRocksRootPath=;LuaRootPath=;ToolsPath=)
>> MSI (s) (A4:A8) [21:47:33:335]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL:
>> C:\WINDOWS\Installer\MSI2C78.tmp, Entrypoint: ConfigureLuaRocks
>> MSI (s) (A4:6C) [21:47:33:335]: Generating random cookie.
>> MSI (s) (A4:6C) [21:47:33:347]: Created Custom Action Server with PID
>> 18240 (0x4740).
>> MSI (s) (A4:8C) [21:47:33:380]: Running as a service.
>> MSI (s) (A4:8C) [21:47:33:384]: Hello, I'm your 32bit Impersonated custom
>> action server.
>> SFXCA: Extracting custom action to temporary directory:
>> C:\Users\russh\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI2C78.tmp-\
>> SFXCA: Binding to CLR version v4.0.30319
>> Calling custom action
>> Winlua.Installer.CustomAction!Winlua.Installer.CustomAction.CustomActions.ConfigureLuaRocks
>> ...
>> (Full log here: https://pastebin.com/ycJfigrr - It takes a while to
>> load!)
>>
>
> Here is the relative order of when those properties got set
>
> MSI (s) (A4:1C) [21:47:25:910]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding Configure.LuaRocks
> property. Its value is
> 'LuaRocksConfigPath=;LuaRocksRootPath=;LuaRootPath=;ToolsPath='.
> MSI (s) (A4:1C) [21:47:25:911]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding LuaRocksConfigPath
> property. Its value is 'C:\Program Files
> (x86)\WinLua\LuaRocks\\config-[LuaVersion2].lua'.
> MSI (s) (A4:1C) [21:47:25:913]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding LuaRocksRootPath
> property. Its value is 'C:\Program Files (x86)\WinLua\LuaRocks\'.
> MSI (s) (A4:1C) [21:47:25:914]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding LuaRootPath
> property. Its value is 'C:\Program Files (x86)\WinLua\Lua\'.
> MSI (s) (A4:1C) [21:47:25:915]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding ToolsPath
> property. Its value is 'C:\Program Files (x86)\WinLua\LLVM-MinGW\'.
>
> Notably, Configure.LuaRocks was set *before* the properties it depended
> on. The Before attributes were set to Configure.LuaRocks which is the
> deferred custom action. The custom action that sets the property is called
> SetConfigure.LuaRocks.
>
> Also, LuaRocksConfigFileName must be set with SetProperty (not Property
> like I did initially) and it must be set before LuaRocksConfigPath.
>
> Something like this
>
> <SetProperty Id="LuaRocksConfigFileName" Value="config-[LuaVersion2].lua"
> Before="SetLuaRocksConfigPath" Sequence="execute" />
>
> <SetProperty Id="LuaRocksRootPath" Value="[LUAROCKS_INSTALLLOCATION]"
> Before="SetLuaRocksConfigPath" Sequence="execute" />
>
> <SetProperty Id="LuaRocksConfigPath" Value="[LuaRocksRootPath]\[LuaRocksConfigFileName]"
> Before="SetConfigure.LuaRocks" Sequence="execute" />
>
> <SetProperty Id="LuaRootPath" Value="[LUA_INSTALLLOCATION]"
> Before="SetConfigure.LuaRocks" Sequence="execute" />
>
> <SetProperty Id="ToolsPath" Value="[LLVMMINGW_INSTALLLOCATION]"
> Before="SetConfigure.LuaRocks" Sequence="execute" />
>
> <SetProperty Id="Configure.LuaRocks" Value="LuaRocksConfigPath=[
> LuaRocksConfigPath];LuaRocksRootPath=[LuaRocksRootPath];LuaRootPath=
> [LuaRootPath];ToolsPath=[ToolsPath]" Before="Configure.LuaRocks"
> Sequence="execute" />
>

Oh, I'm sorry. I thought the Set... stuff was a typo! How am I completely
not seeing that in the documentation? (I'll find it!)
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/custom-actions

Ha ha. I've never had someone so politely tell me that I mangled their
code. Thanks Edwin.

To the Bat Cave!
Russ

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> Edwin G. Castro
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