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    <p>I've struggled through building a new WiX installer, and I'm really happy with it, except that I also need to install a device driver.</p> <p>Ideally, I'd like to be able to detect the presence of this driver by using <code>RegistrySearch</code>, e.g.</p> <pre><code>&lt;Property Id="DRIVERINSTALLED"&gt; &lt;RegistrySearch Id="DriverInstalledSearch" Root="HKLM" Key="SOFTWARE\DriverCompany\Settings" Name="InstallPath" Type="raw" /&gt; &lt;/Property&gt; </code></pre> <p>If there is a value for the InstallPath registry key, then I'd like to move ahead with the device driver installation. I haven't figured that part out yet, but that is secondary right now, because I can't even get the device driver to install every time.</p> <p>There are various examples floating around on the web, and the one corresponding to WiX v3.5 seems to follow this pattern:</p> <pre><code>&lt;CustomAction Id="InstallDeviceDrivers" Execute="deferred" Directory="INSTALLLOCATION" ExeCommand="setup.exe" Return="check" /&gt; . . . &lt;InstallExecuteSequence&gt; &lt;Custom Action="InstallDeviceDrivers" After="InstallFiles" /&gt; &lt;/InstallExecuteSequence&gt; </code></pre> <p>Whenever I run my msi, I get the error "a program required for this install to complete could not be run".</p> <p>setup.exe is copied to my INSTALLLOCATION, and I have verified this by looking in that folder when my msi fails.</p> <p>I played with the value of the <code>After</code> attribute, but <code>InstallFiles</code> seems to be the right one since it maintains elevated user privileges. I had originally tried <code>InstallFinalize</code>, but that failed and I figured that it wasn't running with elevated privileges. The problem is, none of the other Actions I have tried work.</p> <p>I then ran my installer with <code>msiexec /i installer.msi /l*v install.log</code> and looked over the output file. That's where I saw a slightly more specific error:</p> <pre><code>MSI (s) (74:CC) [14:06:10:098]: Executing op: ActionStart(Name=InstallDeviceDrivers,,) Action 14:06:10: InstallDeviceDrivers. MSI (s) (74:CC) [14:06:10:098]: Executing op: CustomActionSchedule(Action=InstallDeviceDrivers,ActionType=1058,Source=C:\Program Files\MyCompany\MyProduct\,Target=setup.exe,) MSI (s) (74:CC) [14:06:10:108]: Note: 1: 1721 2: InstallDeviceDrivers 3: C:\Program Files\MyCompany\MyProduct\ 4: setup.exe MSI (s) (74:CC) [14:06:10:108]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Error MSI (s) (74:CC) [14:06:10:108]: Note: 1: 2228 2: 3: Error 4: SELECT `Message` FROM `Error` WHERE `Error` = 1721 Error 1721. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Action: InstallDeviceDrivers, location: C:\Program Files\MyCompany\MyProduct\, command: setup.exe MSI (s) (74:CC) [14:06:11:800]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Error MSI (s) (74:CC) [14:06:11:800]: Note: 1: 2228 2: 3: Error 4: SELECT `Message` FROM `Error` WHERE `Error` = 1709 MSI (s) (74:CC) [14:06:11:800]: Product: Installer -- Error 1721. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Action: InstallDeviceDrivers, location: C:\Program Files\MyCompany\MyProduct\, command: setup.exe </code></pre> <p>Based off of some searching, it sounded like I just needed to run as admin, but my installer already triggers UAC... and sure enough, running the installer from an elevated command prompt didn't help.</p> <p>Can anyone recommend a next course of action for me to debug this? If you additionally have information on how to conditionally install based on the presence of a registry key, that would be really great, too. Thank you!</p> <p>EDIT -- I have run my installer on Windows XP 32bit and Windows 7 32bit, and it fails on both. Yet another reason to believe it's not permissions-related.</p> <p>EDIT #2 -- I don't know why I didn't try this before, but I changed from setup.exe to notepad.exe, and Notepad launched. So obviously the CustomAction works. I'll try again with Process Monitor to see where it's looking for setup.exe... or perhaps I just can't run an installer from within another installer?</p>
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