How do you register the COM DLL? Heat will pull the information from COM DLLs which implement the public function DLLRegisterServer (which is what regsvr32.exe calls). If you're using some custom method like using rundll32.exe or something you'll likely need to look into using RegSpy2 (see http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/msi/tips.htm about 1/3 down the page). RegSpy2 will output a .reg file which you can run through tallow.exe in WiX 2.0 to generate a .wxs (if you're using WiX 3.0 you then need to run that .wxs through WiXCop.exe to get WiX 3.0 compliant code).
Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment & IT Administrator T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the <Virtual Environment>** Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited. Registered in Scotland No. SC151456 Registered Office - Helix Building, West Of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow G20 0SP Email Disclaimer -----Original Message----- From: Lian Jiang [mailto:lji...@microsoft.com] Sent: 11 February 2010 11:26 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] registry info extraction for native COM dll Thanks for reply. I tried heat.exe in v3. Similarly, it works for managed COM dll and does not for a native dll: heat.exe : warning HEAT5150 : Could not harvest data from a file that was expect ed to be a SelfReg DLL: c:\TEMP\station.dll. If this file does not support SelfR eg you can ignore this warning. Otherwise, this error detail may be helpful to d iagnose the failure: Unable to load file: c:\TEMP\station.dll, error: 193. Thanks Lian -----Original Message----- From: Pally Sandher [mailto:pally.sand...@iesve.com] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 3:12 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] registry info extraction for native COM dll Have you tried using heat.exe in WiX 3.0? The post you're referring to is 3 years old which is very much pre-WiX 3.0. Unless there's some requirement which means you can't upgrade to WiX 3.0 I'd strongly suggest migrating. If you can't you could still try to use heat.exe to generate the .wxs for you & then modify it to work in the WiX 2.0 schema. See http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/heat.htm Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment & IT Administrator T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the <Virtual Environment>** Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited. Registered in Scotland No. SC151456 Registered Office - Helix Building, West Of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow G20 0SP Email Disclaimer -----Original Message----- From: Lian Jiang [mailto:lji...@microsoft.com] Sent: 11 February 2010 10:58 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] registry info extraction for native COM dll Hi, Maybe this is an old topic but I did not find much information online. To install a COM component, I need to extract COM information from the dll first. In Wix2.0, tallow.exe can extract the information from a managed COM dll, but it does not work for a native COM dll. According to post http://n2.nabble.com/Com-registration-using-tallow-td698121.html, the work around is to debug with tallow to extract a native COM dll's information. Is there any tool making the job easier? Thanks Lian ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
