[WiX-users] How to install Drivers using WiX

[ar]

I am able to install drivers using DPInst.exe( It copies my drivers to
DriversStore)

I would like to do the same using WiX. With the following code I am able to
copy the drivers to the System32 directory But not to the DriversStore.

My objective behide doing this is I would like have an installer( one .msi)
which installs drivers and the application.


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi"
xmlns:difx="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/DifxAppExtension">

<Product Id="c2bf8f6e-ff84-4b27-adc8-4acc9486cfd3" Name="My Driver"
Language="1033"
Version="1.0.0.0" Manufacturer="My Company"
UpgradeCode="ad6ba1b3-686a-4f49-8c52-84fe1c389d50">
<Package Id="????????-????-????-????-????????????"
InstallerVersion="200" Compressed="yes" />

<Property Id="ALLUSERS">1</Property>
<Media Id="1" Cabinet="DriverInstallation.cab" EmbedCab="yes" />

<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id='SystemFolder' Name='System32'>
<Directory Id='INSTALLDIR' Name='Drivers'>
<Component Id="ProductComponent"
Guid="3e0aa007-4463-4f70-aaf2-ad9c1feffb8c"
DriverForceInstall="yes" DriverSequence="0"
DriverAddRemovePrograms="yes" DriverLegacy ="yes"
DriverPlugAndPlayPrompt="no" >
<File Id="tostrcs1.dll" Name="tostrcs1.dll" Source="tostrcs1.dll"
DiskId="1"/>
<File Id="toaster1.sys" Name="toaster1.sys" Source="toaster1.sys"
DiskId="1"/>
<File Id="toastpkg.inf" Name="toastpkg.inf" Source="toastpkg.inf"
DiskId="1"/>
</Component>
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Directory>

<Feature Id="ProductFeature" Title="My Driver Feature" Level="1">
<ComponentRef Id="ProductComponent" />
</Feature>

<Binary Id="DifxApp" SourceFile="DifxApp.dll"/>
<CustomAction Id="MsiProcessDrivers" BinaryKey="DifxApp"
DllEntry="ProcessDriverPackages" HideTarget="no" Impersonate="no"
Execute="immediate" Return="check"/>
<CustomAction Id="MsiCleanupOnSuccess" BinaryKey="DifxApp"
DllEntry="CleanupOnSuccess" HideTarget="no" Impersonate="no"
Execute="immediate" Return="check"/>

<Binary Id="DifxAppA" SourceFile="DifxAppA.dll"/>
<CustomAction Id="MsiInstallDrivers" BinaryKey="DifxAppA"
DllEntry="InstallDriverPackages" HideTarget="no" Impersonate="no"
Execute="deferred" Return="check"/>
<CustomAction Id="MsiUninstallDrivers" BinaryKey="DifxAppA"
DllEntry="UninstallDriverPackages" HideTarget="no" Impersonate="no"
Execute="deferred" Return="check"/>
<CustomAction Id="MsiRollbackInstall" BinaryKey="DifxAppA"
DllEntry="RollbackInstall" HideTarget="no" Impersonate="no"
Execute="rollback" Return="check"/>


</Product>
</Wix>

[Christopher Painter]

I'm curious about this also. I've never really been asked to do driver installation work and someone recently asking me to do this. They seemed to be very fixated on the ability to write driver co-installers in C++. Is this correct thinking or not? It seems with the declaritive nature of MSI/WiX and the avoidance of procedural runtime code ( ala CA's and COM registration ) that you would want to avoid driver co-installers but perhaps this is not the case for drivers.

I would appreciate everyones thoughts on this.

Thanks,
Chris


ar <***@gmail.com> wrote:

I am able to install drivers using DPInst.exe( It copies my drivers to
DriversStore)

I would like to do the same using WiX. With the following code I am able to
copy the drivers to the System32 directory But not to the DriversStore.

My objective behide doing this is I would like have an installer( one .msi)
which installs drivers and the application.



xmlns:difx="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/DifxAppExtension">


Language="1033"
Version="1.0.0.0" Manufacturer="My Company"
UpgradeCode="ad6ba1b3-686a-4f49-8c52-84fe1c389d50">

InstallerVersion="200" Compressed="yes" />


1






Guid="3e0aa007-4463-4f70-aaf2-ad9c1feffb8c"
DriverForceInstall="yes" DriverSequence="0"
DriverAddRemovePrograms="yes" DriverLegacy ="yes"
DriverPlugAndPlayPrompt="no" >
DiskId="1"/>
DiskId="1"/>
DiskId="1"/>










DllEntry="ProcessDriverPackages" HideTarget="no" Impersonate="no"
Execute="immediate" Return="check"/>
DllEntry="CleanupOnSuccess" HideTarget="no" Impersonate="no"
Execute="immediate" Return="check"/>


DllEntry="InstallDriverPackages" HideTarget="no" Impersonate="no"
Execute="deferred" Return="check"/>
DllEntry="UninstallDriverPackages" HideTarget="no" Impersonate="no"
Execute="deferred" Return="check"/>
DllEntry="RollbackInstall" HideTarget="no" Impersonate="no"
Execute="rollback" Return="check"/>
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