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davidanthoff
Brass Contributor
Jun 08, 2020

How to use AddOptionalPackageAsync?

I'm trying to build a MSIX solution for the [Julia](https://julialang.org/) language, but I'm stuck in that I can't get AddOptionalPackageAsync to work. In general, I'm using a PackagingLayout.xml th...
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Tanaka_Jimha
Former Employee
Jun 11, 2020

Hi davidanthoff 

 

Access Denied means you're having permission issues calling the API. Our devs said the fastest way to root cause will be to get logs. Can you please make a Feedback Hub submission capturing the error in the Developer Platform > App Deployment category: 

 

 

After capturing the issue, can you also attach the appxmanifest.xml files of your main app and optional packages with the submission. Please send me a link to the issue once you're done.

 

Thanks,

Tanaka 

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davidanthoff
Brass Contributor
Jun 11, 2020

Tanaka_Jimha  Here is the link https://aka.ms/AA8obl4, hope that helps.

 

I'm also preparing a GitHub repo with all the code that I use to create these msix packages, it is all open source, so no problem to share that.

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    davidanthoff
    Brass Contributor
    Jun 11, 2020

    davidanthoff Actually, I just realized that it will take a little longer until I can publish that GitHub repo: right now I have a codesigning cert that includes my private address, and I don't want to use that on the public internet. I'm working with my issuer right now to remove the address, as soon as I have that, I'll post it. But the issue I submitted on the feedback hub should include the necessary files.

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      Tanaka_Jimha
      Former Employee
      Jun 15, 2020

      Thanks for submitting the files davidanthoff. I've forwarded them to the dev team for investigation. sounds good, let me know when you have the GitHib repo available and I'll also have a look at that.

       

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        davidanthoff
        Brass Contributor
        Jun 19, 2020

        Tanaka_Jimha Alright, I've got the github repo up now, it is here:

         

        https://github.com/davidanthoff/winjulia

         

        You won't be able to run the build steps because you also need various builds of Julia itself, and setting that up is complicated, but it should give you an idea of what scripts I'm using to build things.

         

        I'm also hosting the packages that I've created online now at https://winjulia.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/index.html, so you and the dev team should be able to run the installer etc. on your own system and collect logs.

         

        Here are some random comments that maybe are helpful:

        • The link "Install Julia" on that S3 website that I posted links to the appinstaller file. It will install the "Julia" package, and one of the optional packages, namely Julia-1.4.1. There are two other optional packages (Julia-1.4.0 and Julia-1.4.2), and the website has links to all three optional packages.
        • Installing any of the three optional packages via the weblink from that S3 site works.
        • What I want to do is install optional packages from in-app code, though. The specific code that I'm using for that is https://github.com/davidanthoff/winjulia/blob/4ac34b6d0f4a434ef1902ecf24c17a8a3da65e64/launcher/main.cpp#L97, and that is also the part of the code that errors. If you install the main "Julia" app from the website that I linked to and run it, you will see an error message, and the code that I linked to in this item here is where that error occurs.

        Let me know if this helps or if you need any more information!