[wpkg-users] Makemsi broken in Wpkg-GP-0.17.16_x64.exe ?

[Vincent Sneyers - make IT simple]

Thumbs up Nils for keeping wpkg-gp & client alive!

They're being used here and highly appreciated.

Regards
Vincent


On 25/07/17 14:25, Nils Thiele wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to build the latest release on windows 7 instead of windows 
> 8.1 and it seems this fixed the problem with the makemsi.exe (atleast 
> on the 2 win7 systems i tried).
> This build seems to work fine on newer versions too but i hope to get 
> a bit more feedback on this. Especially because the filesize on with 
> win8.1 and win7 builds differ so much.
>
> Check the releases page on github for the download:
>
> https://github.com/sonicnkt/wpkg-gp/releases
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Nils
>
>
> Am 16.03.2017 um 10:31 schrieb Mike Burgener:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> Perhaps any update/hint on this?
>>
>> Nils, would it be possible to increase the debug level? Perhaps we 
>> get the name of the dll then?
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>> Von: wpkg-users [mailto:wpkg-users-bounces at lists.wpkg.org] Im Auftrag
>>> von Nils Thiele
>>> Gesendet: Freitag, 25. November 2016 13:37
>>> An: wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org
>>> Betreff: Re: [wpkg-users] Makemsi broken in Wpkg-GP-0.17.16_x64.exe ?
>>>
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> I finally had a bit of time to check this out:
>>>
>>> Test 1 on My development system (Win8.1 x64, up to date):
>>>
>>> With 0.17.16 installed i ran:
>>>
>>> makemsi.exe x64 %path_to_installer% %path_to_ini% %path_for_msi%
>>>
>>> Without any errors.
>>>
>>> Test2 on another system without the python environment (Win7, x64):
>>>
>>> With 0.17.16 installed i ran:
>>>
>>> makemsi.exe x64 %path_to_installer% %path_to_ini% %path_for_msi%
>>>
>>> And error:
>>>
>>> "C:\Program Files\Wpkg-GP\MakeMSI.exe"
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>     File "MakeMSI.py", line 2, in <module>
>>>     File "msilib\__init__.pyc", line 4, in <module>
>>>     File "_msi.pyc", line 12, in <module>
>>>     File "_msi.pyc", line 10, in __load
>>> ImportError: DLL load failed: Die angegebene Prozedur wurde nicht
>>> gefunden.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ok it seems that in my packaged installer there is a python 
>>> part/module/dll
>>> missing that is necessary for the makemsi tool and because my dev 
>>> system
>>> has all of these installed anyway it works anyway.
>>>
>>> Sadly i have no idea how to fix this easily, i haven't touched the 
>>> build routine
>>> of wpkg-gp and the method for building the exe (py2exe) is not the 
>>> same i
>>> use for my client software (pyinstaller) which with which im way more
>>> experienced.
>>>
>>> But i may still have any easy solution:
>>>
>>> I tried installing the latest official wpkg-gp build (0.18b1) and 
>>> then used its
>>> makemsi tool to create a msi package of the 0.17.16 installer which 
>>> worked
>>> fine, but i have not tested the created msi.
>>>
>>> Maybe this is a workaround until im able to fix the problem in my 
>>> version.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Nils
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 15.11.2016 um 14:50 schrieb Mike Burgener:
>>>> Hi everybody,
>>>>
>>>> it seems that makemsi.exe is broken in Wpkg-GP-0.17.16_x64.exe
>>>>
>>>> "C:\Program Files\Wpkg-GP\MakeMSI.exe"
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>     File "MakeMSI.py", line 2, in <module>
>>>>     File "msilib\__init__.pyc", line 4, in <module>
>>>>     File "_msi.pyc", line 12, in <module>
>>>>     File "_msi.pyc", line 10, in __load
>>>> ImportError: DLL load failed: Die angegebene Prozedur wurde nicht
>>> gefunden.
>>>> Tried on 2 Computer (my workstations and a test-vm)
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Mike
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