Merge Module problems

[IanM]

Hi,

I'm on the 30 day evaluation and setting up a project.

I'm having problems with merge modules

Created Windows Installer database
Error during build: Unable to merge Windows Installer database with module msxml4sxs32

Any suggestions?

Also I need to create an empty folder under TARGETDIR whose contents (user data) will never be touched by Uninstall. Will CreateFolder do this?

Otherwise very impressive.

[sinan]

CreateFolder would do that task nicely. As long as there are files created after the install there, they will survive. If your install creates those files though, they will be removed by the uninstall.

Do other merge modules work? We are not aware of any problems with merge modules at this time. InstallAware also features a built-in MSXML plugin you can use to install XML4.

[IanM]

Hi sinan,

I am about to purchase Installaware studio but am still unable to get installations built if ANY merge modules are included -same error as I gave before.

Error during build: Unable to merge Windows Installer database with module Soap_core

I have sucessfully built Wise for Windows Installer packages with the same modules e.g. SOAP_core.

Any suggestions,

Ian

Very impressive product. the MM problem is not (yet) a show stopper for me thankfully.

[sinan]

May I ask what version of the product you are using? If you do not see the text 050927 in the about box, please upgrade to the latest version from the product website (your scripts will migrate automatically).

Thank you for your kind words on InstallAware! Please help spread the word.

[IanM]

May I ask what version of the product you are using? If you do not see the text 050927 in the about box, please upgrade to the latest version from the product website (your scripts will migrate automatically).

Thank you for your kind words on InstallAware! Please help spread the word.

Sorry, I meant to say that I had re-downloaded the latest version:

p1.passion_update2_rtm.050927

I have tried several merge modules with the same result.

Ian

[sinan]

We have users who are merging, for example, Crystal merge modules without problems. Perhaps you can upload your merge modules to a web server and we can see what is going wrong?

[IanM]

We have users who are merging, for example, Crystal merge modules without problems. Perhaps you can upload your merge modules to a web server and we can see what is going wrong?

Thanks,
Tried Crystal:

Error during build: Unable to merge Windows Installer database with module Crystal_Database_Access2003

I have uploaded the soap module concerned to

http://www.gpacc.co.uk/soap_core.zip

but this appears to be a general problem with ALL modules I have tried.

Ian

[sinan]

Hmm, this seems to have worked fine here.
I wonder if the merge module library on your system is registered or not.

Can you please run the following command, in your InstallAware installation folder:

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regsvr32 mergemod.dll

And then try again?

[IanM]

Hmm, this seems to have worked fine here.
I wonder if the merge module library on your system is registered or not.

Can you please run the following command, in your InstallAware installation folder:

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regsvr32 mergemod.dll

And then try again?

Success!!

One other minor glitch to report:

Error Dialog box comes up on starting:

invalid class string : EsellerateControl.350

No obvious problems in the package except that the Files list sometimes fails to refresh correctly when files hgave been added to the install - could this be related?

Thanks again - I will be purchasing the package later today.

Ian

[sinan]

It seems the eSellerate error is also related to self-registration. At any rate this should not effect the IDE or built setups, and will go away when you install your purchased license.

Glad the merge module problem is solved!

[IanM]

Glad the merge module problem is solved!

Hi Sinan,

Not quite!! I can use the MSXML plugin fine but it adds 4MB to my install, even with maximal compression.

I thought I would try the standard MS XML merge modules for comparison but I get similar errors as before with both the XML4 and XML3 MMs.

MSXML3 SP4

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

MSXML4

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

When using Web blocks, I presume any merge modules are included in the main 'offline' exe?

Ian

[IanM]

No joy either with MSXML3 SP5

Error during build: Unable to merge Windows Installer database with module msxml3_wim32

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

[sinan]

Would you like to try using the native InstallAware MSXML plug-in to install this item? That way, you can keep MSXML in its own web media block (something that is not possible when using merge modules).

[IanM]

Would you like to try using the native InstallAware MSXML plug-in to install this item? That way, you can keep MSXML in its own web media block (something that is not possible when using merge modules).

Thanks Sinan,

I have tried the plugin and it works fine thanks but it does add 4MB to an otherwise very small install (much bigger than combined size of the MMs) and I was curious as to why these standard MS merge modules did not appear to work.

Also, I may need to install MSXML3 in some cases.

Ian

[sinan]

I'm really not sure about the standard MSMs...send us a download link, and we'll take a look at it.

The good news about the plug-in approach is that you can use web deploy to eliminate that overhead from your base setup.