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Hannes
Hannes

Reputation: 283

WiX Burn: LaunchTarget fails with error 0x80070002

Setting LaunchTarget e.g. to "cmd.exe" works fine, after the installation of the burn package, the desired command line window pops up. However, setting LaunchTarget to for example "[InstallFolder]\Path\To\Postinstallexecutable.exe" yields an error:

Error 0x80070002: Failed to launch target: C:\Program Files (x86)\Path\To\Postinstallexecutable.exe

The path is correct, executing "C:\Program Files (x86)\Path\To\Postinstallexecutable.exe" at the command line works fine. Is this a bug or am I missing something? WiX toolset version is 3.8.309.0.

Update: After a little more testing, the problem seems to occur only when you try to pass a parameter to the command in LaunchTarget. So for example using

<Variable Name="LaunchTarget" Value="[InstallFolder]\Basiskomponenten\Allgemein\test.cmd" />

works, while

<Variable Name="LaunchTarget" Value="[InstallFolder]\Basiskomponenten\Allgemein\test.cmd Test123" />

results in an 0x80070002 error.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2001

Answers (1)

Rob Mensching
Rob Mensching

Reputation: 35866

The LaunchTarget variable points only to the executable that should be launched, it cannot be provided the command-line arguments. It wasn't until a very recent build of WiX v3.8 that you could set a second variable called LaunchArguments that provides the arguments. So, try upgrading to yesterday's WiX v3.8 build (or newer) and do:

<Variable Name="LaunchTarget" Value="[InstallFolder]\Basiskomponenten\Allgemein\test.cmd" />
<Variable Name="LaunchArguments" Value="Test123" />

Upvotes: 2

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