[Bug 59056] New: Kontakt 8: fails to install: "FALSE"

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59056

Bug ID: 59056
           Summary: Kontakt 8: fails to install: "FALSE"
           Product: Wine
           Version: 10.19
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: msi
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

Created attachment 79824
  --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=79824
install traces for both kontakt 7 and 8

When trying to install Native Instruments' Kontakt 8 (both full and Player),
the installer fails with the error "The Native Instruments Kontakt 8 Setup has
failed: "FALSE". Please check your settings and try again".

Kontakt 7 (Player), which uses a nearly identical installer setup (InstallAware
Wizard-based), installs just fine.

The Player version is free, but requires going through the Native Access
download manager (which itself is annoying to get working on Wine, see AppDB):
https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/samplers/kontakt-8-p...

I'm working with these binaries:
73632dc3fa6ac54365ca9c3f892083598fd42c72  Kontakt 7 7.10.9 Setup PC.exe
c71edf4f829dc3cbf34a92d152cccbb6092c5666  Kontakt 8 8.7.2 Setup PC.exe

I've attached install logs on a fresh prefix with WINEDEBUG=+msi,+msidb,+warn
for both 7 and 8 so you can look at the differences.

Notably, it seems like the .msi file by Kontakt 8 extracted to
C:\Windows\Installer is malformed in some way - trying to open it with msitools
yields "Table size is invalid 148/3" when loading _Tables (and this is in the
Wine logs as well), and real Windows agrees with this. The string pool seems to
have a lot of empty(?) entries at the end (see string_totalsize traces), which
for 8 is enough to push it past the 2^16 threshold in msi_save_string_table
(https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/blob/4dfbf077cf708e4bbffa8e086d78d6652...).
This then makes the _Tables table fail to load. If I run the installer in a
windows VM, the dropped .msi file won't have the blank entries at the end, and
will install correctly (with a string pool size of ~50k rather than ~80k). I'm
not sure what's causing the extra entries and whether *that's* the bug, or if
it just needs to be saved differently?