[BUG] Appx manifest not found or is invalid

[gutisalex]

ℹ️ Info

Version: 2.8.1

💬 Description

msix:create fails

ERROR: PRI191: 0x80004005 - Appx manifest not found or is invalid. Please ensure well-formed manifest file is present. Or specify an index name with /in switch.
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📜 Pubspec.yaml

msix_config:
display_name: MyApp
publisher_display_name: MyApp
identity_name: de.myapp.togo
msix_version: 1.0.4.49
certificate_path: .\windows\runner\resources\windows_certificate.pfx
certificate_password: aPassword
publisher: CN=MyApp & Co. KG, O=MyApp & Co. KG, L=Hamburg, S=Hamburg, C=DE
logo_path: .\windows\runner\resources\app_icon.png
start_menu_icon_path: .\windows\runner\resources\app_icon.png
tile_icon_path: .\windows\runner\resources\app_icon.png
#vs_generated_images_folder_path: C:<PathToFolder>\Images
languages: de-de
icons_background_color: "#003976"
architecture: x64
capabilities: "internetClient"

[YehudaKremer]

hello @gutisalex

im trying to understand this error,
can you please paste here the full log, for example:

flutter pub run msix:create
✓ parsing cli arguments
✓ validating config values
✓ cleaning temporary files
✓ copying assets folder
✓ creating app icons folder
✓ generating icons
[some error.......]
✓ copying app icons
✓ copying VC libraries
✓ getting certificate publisher
✓ generate appx manifest
✓ generate PRI file
✓ packing
✓ cleaning temporary files
✓ installing certificate
✓ signing
❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚ 100%
Msix Installer Created...

also, if its okay can you send me the .msix file for debugging (only if its open source/public/not sensitive data..)

[gutisalex]

hey

I just reverted back to 2.0.0 and the problem still occured, its weird because it was working a month ago and I did not change the pfx neither the config in pubspec, anyway here a full log of msix:create with version 2.0:

flutter pub run msix:create
✓ parsing cli arguments
✓ validating config values                                                             
✓ cleaning temporary files                                                                 
✓ copying assets folder                                                                 
✓ creating app icons folder                                                              
✓ copying app icons                                                                  
✓ copying VC libraries
✓ getting certificate publisher                                                             
✓ generate appx manifest                                                                      
✓ generate PRI file                                                               
❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚ 71% packing..                         
Microsoft (R) MakeAppx Tool
Copyright (C) 2013 Microsoft.  All rights reserved.

Option /v specified, switching to verbose output.
Option /o specified, existing files will be overwritten.
Using default hash method: SHA256.
The path (/p) parameter is: "\\?\C:\Users\user\Dev\myApp\build\windows\runner\Release\myApp.msix"
The content directory (/d) parameter is: "\\?\C:\Users\user\Dev\myApp\build\windows\runner\Release"
Enumerating files from directory "\\?\C:\Users\user\Dev\myApp\build\windows\runner\Release"
Packing 33 file(s) in "\\?\C:\Users\user\Dev\myApp\build\windows\runner\Release" (content directory) to "\\?\C:\Users\user\Dev\myApp\build\windows\run
ner\Release\myApp.msix" (output file name).
Memory limit defaulting to 8470546432 bytes.
Using "\\?\C:\Users\user\Dev\myApp\build\windows\runner\Release\AppxManifest.xml" as the manifest for the package.
MakeAppx : error: Failure at appxFactory->CreateManifestReader(manifestStream, &manifestReader) - 0x80080204 - The specified package format is not valid: The package manifest is not valid.
Cleaning up output file "\\?\C:\Users\user\Dev\myApp\build\windows\runner\Release\myApp.msix".
MakeAppx : error: Failure at (CreatePackage( overwrite, hashAlgorithm, fileList, outputPath, manifestStream.Get(), forceCompressionNone, performanceOptions, encryptPackage, encryptionOptio
ns, cgmPath, mainPackagePathForResourceExemption, makepriExeFullPath)) - 0x80080204 - The specified package format is not valid: The package manifest is not valid.
MakeAppx : error: Package creation failed.

And here on 2.8.1 which is slightly different:

flutter pub run msix:create
✓ parsing cli arguments
✓ validating config values                                                               
✓ cleaning temporary files                                                                   
✓ copying assets folder                                                                   
✓ creating app icons folder                                                                
✓ generating icons                                                                     
✓ copying app icons
✓ copying VC libraries
✓ getting certificate publisher                                                               
✓ generate appx manifest                                                                        
❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚ 66% generate PRI file..                              
Microsoft (R) MakePRI Tool
Copyright (C) 2013 Microsoft. All rights reserved.


Usage:
------
    MakePri.exe new /pr <project root> /cf <config file> [options]

Example:
--------
    MakePri.exe new /pr C:\MyApp\src\ /cf C:\MyApp\priconfig.xml /mn
    C:\MyApp\AppXManifest.xml /of C:\MyApp\src\resources.pri /o

Description:
------------
    Creates a PRI file at [outputfile] by indexing all files in the
    [projectroot]and its subdirectories as directed by the [configxml]. The
    index will be assigned [indexname] to reference resources in the application

Required Parameters:
--------------------
    /ProjectRoot(pr)  : <FOLDERPATH> Root location of project files
    /ConfigXml(cf)    : <FILEPATH> Configuration file location. Use
                        'Makepri.exe createconfig' command to generate one

Options:
--------
    /OutputFile(of)   : <FILEPATH> Output location of PRI file, default is
                        [current directory]\resources.pri
    /Manifest(mn)     : <FILEPATH> Location of the application or component's
                        manifest. This parameter is ignored if [indexname]
                        is given. Default is [projectroot]\AppXManifest.xml
    /IndexName(in)    : <STRING> Name for the generated index of resources.
                        Typically matches the AppX package name, class library
                        simple name, etc. May be supplied via the
                        [manifest] parameter.
                        If IndexName is not specified and an AppX manifest
                        file is not present, the default name 'Application'
                        will be used.
    /VersionMajor(vma): <INTEGER> [Deprecated] Major version number for
                        index, default is 1
    /IndexLog(il)     : <FILEPATH> XML Log of indexed resources, no file
                        generated by default
    /AutoMerge(am)    : This flag is not recommended for normal use with AppX
                        packages. It causes Makepri.exe to set the auto
                        merge flag within the PRI file. Default is not set.
    /ReverseMap(rm)   : Generate a reverse mapping section in the PRI file
                        which can be used for debugging purposes.
    /MappingFile(mf)  : <MAPPINGFILETYPE> Generate a mapping file in the given
                        file format.
    /SchemaFile(sf)   : <FILEPATH> Output location of XML resource schema
                        description.
    /IndexOptions(io) : <OPTIONS> Options to provide detailed control over
                        behavior of resource indexers.
    /Overwrite(o)     : Overwrite an existing output file of the same name
                        without prompting
    /Verbose(v)       : Causes verbose messages to be output to the console
    /Help(h, ?)       : Display the usage help text
    /ExtensionDll(ex) : <FILEPATH> Location of the MRT environment extension
                        DLL. This DLL must be signed by a Microsoft-issued
                        certificate. Default is an empty path (no DLL
                        will be used).


    FOLDERPATH       - is a valid path to a folder
    FILEPATH         - is a path to a file, either relative to the current
                       directory or absolute
    MAPPINGFILETYPE  - Supported File type(s): 'AppX'



ERROR: PRI191: 0x80004005 - Appx manifest not found or is invalid. Please ensure well-formed manifest file is present. Or specify an index name with /in switch.
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pub finished with exit code -1

Unfortanatly its not open source... all company related names have been replaced

[YehudaKremer]

the problem is with the Ampersand('&') in the publisher value.
see microsoft/msix-packaging#342 (comment)

i will try to find a solution for this..

[gutisalex]

ok thanks for the info... I tried to remove the ampersands in the pubspec for testing purposes but that did not do the trick... I guess the issue sits in the pfx file then?!

I checket out an older state of the application and for some reason it still works there. In that version I use an older dart sdk (sdk: ">=2.7.0 <3.0.0") than now (sdk: '>=2.12.0 <3.0.0') and msix version 2.0.0. Dont know if this could be related?! Just trying to provide as much info as possible.

If you need more let me know....

[YehudaKremer]

the latest version extract automatically the publisher from the pfx file
see https://github.com/YehudaKremer/msix/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#254

you can try different certificate without Ampersand in the certificate Subject

[YehudaKremer]

I checket out an older state of the application and for some reason it still works there. In that version I use an older dart sdk (sdk: ">=2.7.0 <3.0.0") than now (sdk: '>=2.12.0 <3.0.0') and msix version 2.0.0. Dont know if this could be related?! Just trying to provide as much info as possible.

If you need more let me know....

thank you 👍 i will check it..

[gutisalex]

ah ok, I get the certificate from the company I work with and the & is part of their brand name... I think I cannot change that!

[gutisalex]

Ok I went through several of my commits and localized the one which broke msix to work... I found out eventhough I used msix 2.0.0 (it was declared like ^2.0.0, ^probably means it used the newest 2.x.x) it got updated in pubspec.lock from 2.3.1 to 2.6.2 and there it stopped working.

So now I use 2.3.1 and msix:create is working again... I hope it helps you to narrow down the issue?!

[YehudaKremer]

Very good thorough investigation 🥇
I will compare to 2.3.1

Thank you

[Baw-Appie]

I have a same issue.
After downgrading to 2.1.3 the issue was resolved.

[Baw-Appie]

This package uses certutil to automatically generate the publisher. but it doesn't handle special characters correctly.

certutil:

CN=Stella IT USA, LLC., O=Stella IT USA, LLC., S=Wyoming, C=US

But what I need:

CN="Stella IT USA, LLC.", O="Stella IT USA, LLC.", S=Wyoming, C=US

[alexmercerind]

Oh I also just faced it. Seems HTML entities aren't being encoded properly in the manifest.

In my case, I had an ampersand in my package description.

[YehudaKremer]

Hello guys

I publish new version (2.8.14) with @Baw-Appie fix,
and i added some additions to handle ampersand and other special characters.

• to solve all special characters added HtmlEscape.convert.
• in addition to @Baw-Appie switching certutil with PowerShell, i also switched here.

Please try 2.8.14 to see if its works with your certificates, Thank You 👍

[khainke]

Did you test this fix against whitespaces in publisher names?

Because exactly 2.8.13 is working for me, but at >= 2.8.14 its failing with

"Error: SignerSign() failed." (-2147024885/0x8007000b)

which is an indication for missmatched publisher name.
And my publisher name includes whitespaces, something like 'company GmbH'.

Otherwise, i would open another issue.

[YehudaKremer]

Hello

White space is not special character..

Can you please run it again (with >= 2.8.14) and paste here the content of \build\windows\runner\Release\AppxManifest.xml.
and also the original full Subject value of your certificate for comparation

thanks

[khainke]

That's strange, i dont have a \build\windows\runner\Release\AppxManifest.xml, i don't rly know why, flutter doctor reports no problem, flutter build windowsdoes not, im on Flutter 2.10.0.

I will try and test it on a new created demo flutter project, maybe it's because my windows folder is too old / missconfigured. When the error persists, i will open a new issue.

[YehudaKremer]

sorry, my bad

the \build\windows\runner\Release\AppxManifest.xml file is delete after successfully creation of the msix file,
so if you got error its not delete.

BUT the sign step is after the deleting/cleaning step, so is deleted for you anyway

sorry again

[YehudaKremer]

What is your certificate Subject value?

[khainke]

My subject value indeed includes an umlaut ST=Thüringen, encoding is utf-8 (utf8 = yes in config for csr):

emailAddress = [email protected],CN = company GmbH,O = company GmbH,L = Jena,ST = Th\C3\BCringen,C = DE

(i replaced my companies exact name)

[YehudaKremer]

Hello @khainke

A lot of digging but a simple fix, published in version 3.0.0-dev.8 please check it out

[khainke]

Thank you, when running without -o nor -n option it works fine.

But when using the options -o and -n to specify the output path, i get an error:

RangeError (start): Invalid value: Not in inclusive range 0..48: -1
#0      RangeError.checkValidRange (dart:core/errors.dart:350:7)
#1      _StringBase.substring (dart:core-patch/string_patch.dart:400:27)
#2      Msix.create (package:msix/msix.dart:37:10)
<asynchronous suspension>
pub finished with exit code 255

(corresponding line tries to find /build/windows which is not in my designated output path, so maybe it has problems there?)