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Murali Manohar
Murali Manohar

Reputation: 613

Unable to Silent Execute the Command in WiX Script

Below is my code when i try to install my MSI it does everything but the lines below shows no sign of execution.

                <Binary Id="unzipExeId" SourceFile="unzip.exe"/>
                <Property Id="WixQuietExec64CmdLine" Value="[#$(var.InstallationLocation)\unzip.exe]"/>
                <CustomAction Id="unzipAction" BinaryKey="unzipExeId" DllEntry="WixQuietExec64" Execute='deferred' Return ='asyncWait' Impersonate='no'/>
                <InstallExecuteSequence>
                    <Custom Action='unzipAction' Before='InstallFinalize'/>
                </InstallExecuteSequence>

Did I miss anything.

But When i Try this code

                <Binary Id="unzipExeId" SourceFile="unzip.exe"/>
                <CustomAction Id="unzipAction" BinaryKey="unzipExeId" ExeCommand="START /B unzip.exe" Execute='deferred' Return ='asyncWait' Impersonate='no'/>
                <InstallExecuteSequence>
                    <Custom Action='unzipAction' Before='InstallFinalize'/>
                </InstallExecuteSequence>

Everything Works Just Fine but the execution of the unzip.exe causes a pop up in the machine. The exe is not silently installed. But i need to silently execute the EXE. Thanks in Advance

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1153

Answers (1)

Arkady Sitnitsky
Arkady Sitnitsky

Reputation: 1886

It could be related to DllEntry instead of using "WixQuietExec64" try to use "CAWixQuietExec64".

There is an open issue regarding this. http://wixtoolset.org/issues/4802/

This is as a common use:

<CustomAction Id="CA_RunBatchScript"
              BinaryKey="WixCA"
              DllEntry="CAQuietExec"
              Execute="deferred"
              Return="check" />

Upvotes: 1

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