imtrobin
23rd August 2008 16:35 UTC

Path is set correctly but msiexec still fails
Hi,

I'm using nsis 2.36 on an older script,and I'm getting the msi package cannot be verified. It used to work on 2.36 before, I did not update nsis but updated to winxp SP3, could it be so?

The first directx exe execwait can execute fine. I have tried various combination of SetOutPath "$INSTDIR", SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\Redistributable" and placed the files in same folder but still error with the second one.

Section -Prerequisites
; SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\Redistributable"
  MessageBox MB_YESNO "Install Microsoft DirectX 9 November 2007 Update?" /SD IDYES IDNO endInstallPhysX
    ExecWait "Redistributable\directx_nov2007_redist.exe"
    Goto endInstallPhysX
  endInstallPhysX:
  MessageBox MB_YESNO "Install the PhysX 2.8.1 Game Redistributable?" /SD IDYES IDNO endPrerequisites
ExecWait '"msiexec" /i "Redistributable\PhysX_Game_installer_281.msi"'
  endPrerequisites:
SectionEnd

Anders
23rd August 2008 18:44 UTC

why not use the full path to PhysX_Game_installer_281.msi ?

imtrobin
24th August 2008 10:22 UTC

Because it's not extracted to the installation directory, only in the source dir.

imtrobin
24th August 2008 10:55 UTC

Ok, I understand what is going on now. It's trying to read the msi on the installed path, which I didn't copy. Thanks for the insight.