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rustdesk/res/msi
rustdesk be24391993 refactor(msi): pass the app name to the printer custom actions
preprocess.py rewrote the CustomActions sources per customer so the printer
carried the app name, which meant the dll was recompiled for every custom
client and, worse, left the app name baked into a compiled binary.

Pass it through CustomActionData instead. Only the printer and its port ever
varied: the INF path and the driver name ship under their stock names and
preprocess.py already forced the driver name back to RustDesk, so a single
build of the dll now serves every custom client.

Both actions treat the name as optional and fall back to the stock name, so a
package built before this still installs and uninstalls its printer.

This also unblocks patching a prebuilt msi template, which cannot work while a
compiled dll contains the app name: replacing a string inside a PE would shift
everything after it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Q7fBdTwziR5BHTkSz7Tzcm
2026-08-05 20:47:38 +08:00
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2026-06-18 22:37:15 +08:00
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RustDesk msi project

Use Visual Studio 2022 to compile this project.

This project is mainly derived from https://github.com/MediaPortal/MediaPortal-2.git .

Steps

  1. python preprocess.py, see python preprocess.py -h for help.
  2. Build the .sln solution.

Run msiexec /i package.msi /l*v install.log to record the log.

Usage

  1. Put the custom dialog bitmaps in "Resources" directory. The supported bitmaps are ['WixUIBannerBmp', 'WixUIDialogBmp', 'WixUIExclamationIco', 'WixUIInfoIco', 'WixUINewIco', 'WixUIUpIco'].

Knowledge

properties

wix-toolset-set-custom-action-run-only-on-uninstall

Property Name Install Uninstall Change Repair Upgrade
Installed False True True True True
REINSTALL False False False True False
UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE False False False False True
REMOVE False True False False True

TODOs

  1. Start menu. Uninstall
  2. custom options
  3. Custom client.
    1. firewall and tcp allow. Outgoing
    2. Show license ?
    3. Do create service. Outgoing.

Refs

  1. windows-installer-portal
  2. wxs
  3. wxs github