msi with only custom action making bundle fail.

[radz1]

hi,
i have a msi1 with only one form screen and custom action. this msi1 does not contain any application to install. it only writes some user input to files.

i have also a bootstapper app which bundle msi1 with 2 other msi. The package.exe getting failed as it says could not install msi1 as it does not have any application.

I wanted to execute msi1 first and get some user info which will be used by msi2 and ms3. how can i achieve it?

[3AE8:3894][2021-01-14T23:53:00]i301: Applying execute package: Test, action: Install, path: C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{3A3B6D4C-F5B8-4533-88F6-91064AF2D823}v1.0.0.0\WixSetup.msi, arguments: ' ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT="1" MSIFASTINSTALL="7"'
[3AE8:3894][2021-01-14T23:53:12]e000: Error 0x80070643: Failed to install MSI package.
[3AE8:3894][2021-01-14T23:53:12]e000: Error 0x80070643: Failed to execute MSI package.
[304C:1474][2021-01-14T23:53:12]e000: Error 0x80070643: Failed to configure per-machine MSI package.
[304C:1474][2021-01-14T23:53:12]i319: Applied execute package:Test, result: 0x80070643, restart: None
[304C:1474][2021-01-14T23:53:12]e000: Error 0x80070643: Failed to execute MSI package.
[3AE8:3894][2021-01-14T23:53:12]i318: Skipped rollback of package: Test, action: Uninstall, already: Absent
[304C:1474][2021-01-14T23:53:12]i319: Applied rollback package: Test, result: 0x0, restart: None

[robmen]

I wanted to execute msi1 first and get some user info which will be used by msi2 and ms3. how can i achieve it?

This is not supported by Burn. You'll want to write a custom BootstrapperApplication to get all user input up front, and pass the values to the chained packages.

[radz1]

can you pls suggest a good documentation for creating custom bootstrapper app.

[robmen]

A couple working examples:

1. Native code: wixstdba
2. Managed code: WixBA.