I wasn't talking of harvesting a reg script, but rather taking a reg file or heat fragment as input for dependencies on the component you are harvesting.
The idea being heat would inject the values from the script into the registry after the redirection, then call the DLLRegisterServer procedure, then remove the dependent values. In theory what are left are the values added by your component. I also was able to reproduce this using the COM component from http://www.antennahouse.com/product/ahf50/ahf5top.htm which requires ATL, though my error code is 998. -----Original Message----- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 2:06 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Replacing regsvr32 commands with Wix elements >> I had pondered making a patch myself, where heat would allow for a reg script to be passed as a parameter. WiX 3.5 already does that see the reg harvest type. Neil -----Original Message----- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: 20 June 2011 23:07 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Replacing regsvr32 commands with Wix elements If I had to guess, this component may rely on other components. I swear I saw something along the lines of this with an ATL component. When the registry redirection occurs inside of Heat, it makes the registry look empty. As such, if your component required ATL it would fail inside its regsvr32 procedure. I had pondered making a patch myself, where heat would allow for a reg script to be passed as a parameter (basically reg script being another heat fragment). With that, you could create an ATL.reg using heat against the ATL DLL, and then pass it as a parameter to the Heat call for your component. The only problem would be writing the logic to identify which attributes were changed by your DLL compared to your reg script. I could be way off base, but I think I could generate a reproducible test case. -----Original Message----- From: Brad Lemings [mailto:b...@rebit.com] Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 4:47 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Replacing regsvr32 commands with Wix elements My guess is it is not safe to ignore this warning. The generated Wix source contains nothing but a DirectoryRef, a Component, and File element. I know more is required to register a COM server than that. So heat does not work. Question now is, why not? -----Original Message----- From: Brad Lemings Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 3:42 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Replacing regsvr32 commands with Wix elements What does "Unable to load file: error 93" mean? Here's the entire warning message: heat.exe : warning HEAT5150 : Could not harvest data from a file that was expected to be a SelfReg DLL: C:\ Builds\MyNSE\MyNSE.dll. If this file does not support SelfReg you can ignore this warning. Otherwise, this error detail may be helpful to diagnose the failure: Unable to load file: C:\Builds\MyNSE\MyNSE.dll, error: 193 When I run the command "regsvr32 MyNSE.dll", the command executes successfully. Safe to ignore this warning? -----Original Message----- From: Dave Brotherstone [mailto:dav...@pobox.com] Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 1:58 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Replacing regsvr32 commands with Wix elements > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brad Lemings [mailto:b...@rebit.com] > Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 1:19 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Replacing regsvr32 commands with Wix elements > > Hmm. How can I capture the effects of the regsvr32 command in a .reg > file which is what Heat expects? > You don't need to - heat file yourfile.dll -o install_actions.wxs will capture everything that regsvr32 does (or actually what your DllRegisterServer call in the DLL does). It really is that easy :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. 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