msi.dll

[Duane Clark]

Tony Lambregts wrote:
> Duane Clark wrote:
> 
> 
>>Jade E. Deane wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Found this to be rather interesting, regarding MSI:
>>>
>>>http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2000/11/0165.html
>>
>>
>>That is rather, err.. very old. I was pretty sure MSI installer was 
>>working recently (at least a few months ago), but trying it just now, 
>>it seems to be broken again. So this would appear to be a regression 
>>somewhere.
>>
> 
> Well I could do the regression testing. Do you have a download url to 
> recomend?
> 

Ahh, I found at least part of the problem. I had recently started making 
  my default Windows version to be "nt40", because many programs I use 
insist on it. This setting breaks the version of InstMsi that I had. 
Changing the Windows version to win98 fixed things.

That was not immediately abvious because although the MSI installer 
throws up a dialog, there was only garbage text in it. However, the 
relay trace was rather small and revealed:

0009:Call kernel32.OutputDebugStringA(004022e4 "ANSI version of the 
Windows installer is not supported on Microsoft Windows NT.\n") ret=00401085

So I guess the main bug is why didn't that show up in the dialog. 
Anyway, I think I got the MSI installer off the Microsoft website somewhere.