Util.PermissionEx not set with WIX 3.14 about issues

[barnson]

Thanks. We need a verbose log, however: https://support.firegiant.com/hc/en-us/articles/230912407-Create-a-log-file-

[barnson]

WiX v3.14 works like WiX v4 to support architecture-specific custom actions: If you have 64-bit components, you need to build the package with the right architecture.

[barnson]

Please provide a repo with a minimal repro project and attach to this issue a verbose log showing the problem.

[Whiletru3]

Here is a package to reproduce.

Just launch the buildWIX314.bat with wix 3.14 installed. in Common.bat, you can change the path to use it with the 3.11.

It will install in %programfiles%\SetupWix314 a readme.txt
and in %programdata%\SetupWix314\ the subfolders Temp and LocalProjects should have full access to the group Users

wixissue7523.zip

And here is the log of the msi install :
MSIbe577.LOG

[Whiletru3]

Here is the verbose log :
verbose log.txt

I tried to build from visual studio with success (ACL are set in this case). So I compared the product.wixobj and saw differences :

the working one from VS2022 (x64 compilation)

			<row sourceLineNumber="C:\TEMP\wix4test\SetupWix314\product.wxs*28">
				<field>Directory</field>
				<field>PROGRAMDATA.LocalProjects</field>
			</row>
			<row sourceLineNumber="C:\TEMP\wix4test\SetupWix314\product.wxs*30">
				<field>CustomAction</field>
				<field>SchedSecureObjects_x64</field>
			</row>
			<row sourceLineNumber="C:\TEMP\wix4test\SetupWix314\product.wxs*34">
				<field>Directory</field>
				<field>PROGRAMDATA.Temp</field>
			</row>
			<row sourceLineNumber="C:\TEMP\wix4test\SetupWix314\product.wxs*36">
				<field>CustomAction</field>
				<field>SchedSecureObjects_x64</field>
			</row>

and the one from candle.exe :

                        <row sourceLineNumber="C:\TEMP\wix4test\SetupWix314\product.wxs*28">
				<field>Directory</field>
				<field>PROGRAMDATA.LocalProjects</field>
			</row>
			<row sourceLineNumber="C:\TEMP\wix4test\SetupWix314\product.wxs*30">
				<field>CustomAction</field>
				<field>SchedSecureObjects</field>
			</row>
			<row sourceLineNumber="C:\TEMP\wix4test\SetupWix314\product.wxs*34">
				<field>Directory</field>
				<field>PROGRAMDATA.Temp</field>
			</row>
			<row sourceLineNumber="C:\TEMP\wix4test\SetupWix314\product.wxs*36">
				<field>CustomAction</field>
				<field>SchedSecureObjects</field>
			</row>

In this case there are no _x64 in SchedSecureObjects
so in my script I added "-arch x64" as parameter for candle.exe and bingo, it is working now.

With the 3.11 without specifying the arch, it was working.

[Whiletru3]

this commit trigger this change :
https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix3/blame/develop/src/tools/wix/CompilerCore.cs#L875
it is doing nothing in case of x86.
and the default platform value of candle is x86 : https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix3/blob/master/src/tools/candle/candle.cs#L52