Qt Installer Framework and execution

St.Stanislav

Hello!
I study how Installer Framework works and found the following thing: during the installation I have tried to install C++ redistributable and it was successfully done. The following code in installscript.qs does the job:

// Check if redistributable is installed
var registryVC2017x64 = installer.execute("reg", new Array("QUERY", "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\VisualStudio\\14.0\\VC\\Runtimes\\x64", "/v", "Installed"))[0];

if (!registryVC2017x64) {
	component.addElevatedOperation("Execute", "@TargetDir@/vc_redist.x64.exe", "/passive", "/norestart");
}

Then I have tried to install more: I took libusb-win32 driver that has been generated with the wizard:

component.addElevatedOperation("Execute", "@TargetDir@/Driver/InstallDriver.exe");

Driver's installer window opens, installation goes successful as well, but then I receive the following error:

Error during installation process (myPackage):
Execution failed (Unexpected exit code: 256): "PathToInstallDriver"

So my question is: can I somehow process return codes of executions in installscript.qs. Or should I do something with executable (driver installer in my case) to return correct code?

St.Stanislav

@St-Stanislav I have found the same topic with no solution:
https://forum.qt.io/topic/56816/qt-ifw-addoperation-reporting-error
And something similar here:
https://forum.qt.io/topic/101441/how-can-i-detect-the-addoperation-error-in-installer-script

I have opened the appropriate bug ticket in libusb-win32 branch, but anyway there should be some way to check and process exit statuses in QInstaller.

abc881858

vcredist/meta/installscript.qs

function Component(){}
Component.prototype.createOperations = function()
{
    component.createOperations();
    if (systemInfo.productType === "windows")
    {
        // return value 3010 means it need a reboot, but in most cases it is not needed for running Qt application
        // return value 5100 means there's a newer version of the runtime already installed
        component.addOperation("Execute", "{0,3010,1638,5100}", "@TargetDir@\\vc_redist.x64.exe", "/quiet", "/norestart");
        component.addOperation("Delete", "@TargetDir@\\vc_redist.x64.exe");
    }
}

vcredist/meta/package.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package>
    <DisplayName>Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable (x64)</DisplayName>
    <Description>Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 64位可再发行安装包</Description>
    <Version>14.0.24215.1</Version>
    <ReleaseDate>2020-05-19</ReleaseDate>
    <Default>true</Default>
    <ForcedInstallation>true</ForcedInstallation>
    <Script>installscript.qs</Script>
</Package>

driver/meta/installscript.qs

function Component(){}
Component.prototype.createOperations = function()
{
    component.createOperations();

    if (systemInfo.productType === "windows")
    {
        component.addElevatedOperation("Execute", "{0,1,256}", "@TargetDir@\\InstallDriver.exe");
        component.addElevatedOperation("Delete", "@TargetDir@\\InstallDriver.exe");
    }
}

driver/meta/package.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package>
    <DisplayName>driver</DisplayName>
    <Description>driver</Description>
    <Version>1.0.1</Version>
    <ReleaseDate>2020-07-11</ReleaseDate>
    <Default>true</Default>
    <ForcedInstallation>true</ForcedInstallation>
    <Script>installscript.qs</Script>
    <RequiresAdminRights>true</RequiresAdminRights>
</Package>

Skeird

@abc881858 thank you king <3