Thanks Jason for confirming this was an oversight and not by design. I've
XP. I submitted bug
MakeSfxCA. The targets file to do this is attached to the feature request
> Thanks John for the investigation, it wasn't obvious to me before what the
> root cause was. So... what this means is, SfxCA just doesn't support
> subdirectories in the CA package. Perhaps I should have documented that
> limitation but honestly I think it was an oversight in the implementation
> and testing.
>
> If someone really needs that capability, please log a bug on sourceforge. I
> know the DTF bugs have been piling up a bit recently, but I hope to dedicate
> some time soon to getting those cleaned up.
>
> -Jason-
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Nannenga [mailto:
[hidden email]]
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 8:57 AM
> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MakeSfxCA and project output
>
> FDI Error code of 11 means user aborted; I found that interesting so I dug
> into this a bit...
>
> sfxca\Extract.cpp :: ExtractCabinet
> Comments note that the destination directory (szExtractDir) must
> already exist (and should be empty)
>
> sfxca\Extract.cpp :: FNFDINOTIFY...
> case fdintCOPY_FILE...
>
> pfdin->psz1 is the name of the file within the cabinet,
> including the 'folder name'. For this example, assume "Foo\File.txt" and the
> extraction directory is "C:\Extract"
>
> Then we get to this code...
>
> 1 size_t cchFile = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0,
> pfdin->psz1, -1, NULL, 0);
> 2 size_t cchFilePath = wcslen(g_szExtractDir) + 1 + cchFile;
> 3 wchar_t* szFilePath = (wchar_t*) _alloca((cchFilePath + 1)
> * sizeof(wchar_t));
> 4 if (szFilePath == NULL) return -1;
> 5 StringCchCopyW(szFilePath, cchFilePath + 1,
> g_szExtractDir);
> 6 StringCchCatW(szFilePath, cchFilePath + 1, L"\\");
> 7 MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, pfdin->psz1, -1,
> 8 szFilePath + cchFilePath - cchFile, (int) cchFile +
> 1);
> 9 int hf;
> 10 _wsopen__s(hf, szFilePath,
> 11 _O_BINARY | _O_CREAT | _O_WRONLY | _O_SEQUENTIAL,
> 12 _SH_DENYWR, _S_IREAD | _S_IWRITE);
> 13 return hf
>
> szFilePath becomes C:\Extract\Foo\File.txt
>
> Then the call to _wsopen__s (line 10) to that file path...well, the
> directory doesn't exist ('C:\Extract\Foo' [however 'c:\Extract' does]) and
> this function doesn't create it, so it returns failure and a -1 for "hf".
> -1 then is returned (line 13) which in this context, means user abort.
>
> Hence "SFXCA: Failed to extract to temporary directory. Cabinet error code
> 11." appears in the MSI log.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Dwyer [mailto:
[hidden email]]
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 12:07 AM
> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.; Shawn Dwyer
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MakeSfxCA and project output
>
> Has anyone gotten this error when using DTF?SFXCA: Failed to extract to
> temporary directory. Cabinet error code 11.
>
> Has anyone managed to pack a directory using another method?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shawn
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Shawn Dwyer <
[hidden email]
> >wrote:
>
> > I think I'm getting close but I'm getting an error when unpacking.
> >
> > Reading the source for MakeSfxCA I found the GetPackFileMap function and
> > reading the description: "By default, all files will be placed in the
> > root of the cab. But inputs may optionally include an alternate
> inside-cab
> > file path before an equals sign."
> >
> > So this implied to me that on the MakeSfxCA command line, rather than
> pass
> > "$(TargetDir)EULAs\ja-JP\Eula.rtf" I could pass "EULAs\ja-JP\Eula.rtf=
> > $(TargetDir)EULAs\ja-JP\Eula.rtf"
> >
> > I beleive the log output of MakeSfxCA confirmed this:
> > Packaging files
> > MyInstallerCA.dll
> > CustomAction.config
> > Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller.dll
> > EULAs\ja-JP\Eula.rtf
> >
> > However, when I run my installer I get the following error:
> >
> > SFXCA: Extracting custom action to temporary directory:
> Temp\MSI28AD.tmp-\
> > MSI (c) (D0!6C) [23:20:00:013]: Closing MSIHANDLE (2) of type 790531 for
> > thread 3436
> > MSI (c) (D0!6C) [23:20:00:091]: Creating MSIHANDLE (3) of type 790531 for
> > thread 3436
> > *SFXCA: Failed to extract to temporary directory. Cabinet error code 11.*
> >
> > Has anyone tried this before and gotten it to work? Is there a better
> way
> > to do this?
> >
> >
> > Additionally I figured out how to pack everything in my CA project ouput
> > directory recursively. I replaced the PackCustomAction taget in the
> > Wix.CA.targets file with the following. I don't recommend changing this
> > file since it will get overwritten on the next Wix install, I simply did
> > this as a shortcut to see if I could get it to work. This could be
> placed
> > in any project file or imported from a custom target though.
> >
> > <Target Name="AfterBuild">
> >
> > <CreateProperty Value="$(TargetDir)$(TargetCAFileName)">
> > <Output TaskParameter="Value"
> > PropertyName="TargetCAPackage"/>
> > </CreateProperty>
> >
> > <CreateItem Include="$(TargetDir)**\*.*">
> > <Output TaskParameter="Include"
> > ItemName="AllFilesInTargetDir" />
> > </CreateItem>
> >
> > <CreateItem Include="@(AllFilesInTargetDir)"
> > Condition=" '%(AllFilesInTargetDir.FullPath)' !=
> > '$(TargetPath)' and '%(AllFilesInTargetDir.FullPath)' !=
> > '$(TargetCAPackage)'" >
> > <Output TaskParameter="Include"
> > ItemName="AllDependenciesInTargetDir" />
> > </CreateItem>
> >
> > <CreateProperty
> >
> Value="@(AllDependenciesInTargetDir->'%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)=%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)')"
> > >
> > <Output TaskParameter="Value"
> > PropertyName="AllDependenciesInTargetDirList" />
> > </CreateProperty>
> >
> > <!-- Run the MakeSfxCA.exe CA packaging tool. -->
> > <Exec Command='"$(MakeSfxCA)" "$(TargetCAPackage)" "$(SfxCADll)"
> > "$(TargetPath)" "$(AllDependenciesInTargetDirList)"'
> > WorkingDirectory="$(TargetDir)" />
> >
> > </Target>
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Shawn Dwyer <
[hidden email]
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Is there a way to get MakeSfxCA include everything in my CA project
> ouput
> >> directory recursively, maintaining folder structure? It seems to me
> this
> >> would be the simplest way of ensuring all necessary dependencies are
> there
> >> at runtime.
> >>
> >> For a simple example say I have my EULAs for each language in a
> >> subdirectory such as $(TargetDir)\EULAs\ja-JP\Eula.rtf. I'd like this
> file
> >> and the folder structure to be there at runtime.
> >>
> >> Of course in the above example I could simply flatten the folder
> structure
> >> and add the language as part of the file name, but my particular
> scenario is
> >> more complicated.
> >>
> >> Another example would be to get the dependencies of dependencies. For
> >> example Project A depends on Project B which depends on Project C. The
> >> output of C is automatically copied to the output directory of B, and
> all of
> >> that to the ouput directory of A. I'd like to someout get that all
> packaged
> >> up and available at runtime.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Shawn
> >>
> >
> >
>
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