Forum Discussion

Bineesh Nagoorkhani's avatar
Bineesh Nagoorkhani
Copper Contributor
Nov 01, 2018
Solved

Setup.exe failed, exit code 259

Hi,  I am trying to convert DWGTrueView 2018 to MSIX. DWG True installation went well and finally I got the screen that installation completed successfully. But the MSIXPackagingTool prompted that t...
  • James Pike's avatar
    James Pike
    Nov 07, 2018

    Hi Bineesh,

     

    In an upcoming build of the tool, we have loosened the restriction on success codes returned by installers.  We realized that its rather common for installers to not always return vanilla success codes.

     

    Until then, you an option to unblock yourself:

    You could provide no installer in the select installer UI. This will trigger manual install mode.  When you reach the installation page, you can run your setup.exe from a powershell window.  When the installer is done, keep going!

     

    If you run into any other issues with this conversion, please let me know.

     

    Thanks!
    James

James Pike's avatar
James Pike
Icon for Microsoft rankMicrosoft
Nov 07, 2018

Hi Bineesh,

 

In an upcoming build of the tool, we have loosened the restriction on success codes returned by installers.  We realized that its rather common for installers to not always return vanilla success codes.

 

Until then, you an option to unblock yourself:

You could provide no installer in the select installer UI. This will trigger manual install mode.  When you reach the installation page, you can run your setup.exe from a powershell window.  When the installer is done, keep going!

 

If you run into any other issues with this conversion, please let me know.

 

Thanks!
James

Resources