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cloudveiltech / Filter-Windows

HTTP/S Content Filter for Windows 7 and newer
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Bundle ms c runtime stuff directly in to installer payload #131

Closed TechnikEmpire closed 5 years ago

TechnikEmpire commented 6 years ago

The merge modules are annoying. They're system wide, so apps using the shared runtime can and will prevent installation from advancing.

TechnikEmpire commented 6 years ago

We can use a tool provided by WiX to extract the dll's from our merge modules.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2700851/extracting-files-from-merge-module

In case of link rot:

dark.exe myMergeModule.msm -x "path_to_extracted_files"