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[Lou_III]

Hello:

I added a small InstallScript to my Installation using InstallShield 11 but now I get the following error when I try to run the installation.

MSI © (6C!E4) [15:46:25:176]: Creating MSIHANDLE (10) of type 790531 for thread 6628
1: Failed to extract setup.inx, error is 259


What does this mean and how can I get around the problem?

I apologize in advance if this is posted to the wrong forum. Thank you for any help.

Lou III

Edited by Lou_III, 13 October 2005 - 21:03.

[Stefan Krueger]

Did your InstallScript compile without errors? Looks like InstallShield didn't include the compiled script (.inx) in your package (which it should do automatically).

[Lou_III]

Thanks for the tip. I knew it compiled without errors but I forgot that our build computer takes the msi and copies it to another directory and it builds the install there. Once I copied the "Script Files" directory over it all worked. Is there any way to force the scripts to be built from a command line? (It seems insane that they don't get built everytime automatically but I'm sure there is some reason for this that I don't understand.)

As an aside, if a merge module is missing I have not found a way to Stop the installation from building. It just goes ahead and makes an install exe with missing stuff, any way to stop this from occuring?

Cheers,
Lou III

[Stefan Krueger]

I think there's also a command line compiler.