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visual-studio-2012wix
Meirion Hughes
Meirion Hughes

Reputation: 26408

Wix Driver Installation Debug?

I'm trying to port a driver installation to Wix, but it keeps failing to install one of the drivers. I am using the difxapi extension, but don't know how to enable logging to get any error messages.

Is there something I can do to find out what is going wrong?

This is the code I'm using; mlusb.inf is dependent on windrvr6.sys. If remove mlusb.inf, the first part installs perfectly fine. 

<ComponentGroup Id="MainDriverGroup" Directory="DriversFolder">
  <Component Win64="no" Id="MainDriver" Guid="{04604482-1DA8-4E8E-B2BA-108E759F2D99}">
    <difx:Driver Legacy='yes' ForceInstall='yes' Sequence='1'/>
    <File Id='DriverINF' Vital="yes" Source="Files\windrvr6.inf" KeyPath="yes"/>
    <File Id="DriverSYS" Vital="yes" Source="Files\windrvr6.sys"/>
    <File Id="DriverCAT" Vital="yes" Source="Files\wd1021.cat"/> 
  </Component>

  <Component Win64="no" Id="USBDriver" Guid="{63C42BC9-CE54-4C78-A0A1-224533986F45}">
    <difx:Driver Legacy='yes'  ForceInstall='yes' Sequence='2'/>
    <File Id='DriverUSBINF'   Source="Files\mlusb.inf" KeyPath="yes"/>
  </Component>    
</ComponentGroup>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 177

Answers (1)

Rami A.
Rami A.

Reputation: 10582

Msiexec (command-line options)

Here is an example command line to enable verbose logging:

msiexec /i example.msi /l*v c:\logfile.txt

This will create c:\logfile.txt, so make sure you have enough permissions to write to c:\.

Upvotes: 1

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