Issue Creating .MSP Patch Using WiX v3.14 – DARK0182 Error Related to 'ISDRMFile' Table

[byugandharoracle-stack]

Question

I'm currently working with WiX Toolset v3.14 to generate a patch (.MSP) file. Here's the process I'm following:

Extract the original MSI into a temporary folder

Copy updated DLLs into the same folder

Rebuild the updated MSI

Generate a transform (.MST) file

Attempt to create the .MSP file using MspMsi.exe

However, during this process, I encounter the following error:
dark.exe : error DARK0182 : Cannot find the table definitions for the 'ISDRMFile' table. This is likely due to a typing error or missing extension. Please ensure all the necessary extensions are supplied on the command line with the -ext parameter.

It seems to be related to the ISDRMFile table, which I believe might be specific to InstallShield. I'm not sure how to resolve this or which extension might be missing.

Has anyone run into this issue before or know how to properly include the necessary extensions when using dark.exe?

Any guidance would be appreciated!

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• I (or an organization I'm a member of) pay the Open Source Maintenance Fee by sponsoring the wixtoolset project because I support the maintainers.

[robmen]

I thought there was a command-line switch to tell dark to dump unknown tables as CustomTables. I forget, WiX v3 is well out of service and I'd recommend investigating how to get on to a modern version of WiX.