echg
13th July 2004 11:58 UTC

Newbie question: test for mdac and vb6 dll's versions
Hi, I'm totally new to NSIS but I like it a lot.

I built a setup for a program I'm developing, and it works fine.

However I need to include in the script a way of checking for the existence and version of both the mdac 2.6+ and the vb6sp6 libraries on the users computer, in order to install the new versions if necessary.

So far my attempts to do so have resulted in compile errors, therefore I'm turning to your help as experts.

Thanks in advance,
echg

Joost Verburg
13th July 2004 12:23 UTC

See the Users Manual for information about installing the VB6 runtimes.

I will upload a new DLL installation system this week which will make it even easier.

zimsms
13th July 2004 13:19 UTC

See my article in the NSIS Archive. You can find it here.

echg
13th July 2004 13:42 UTC

zimsms, could you provide a smaller example just for the english mdac 2.8? Sorry, but I'm just newbie and the example you pointed out is a bit to complicated for me just yet. I appreciate all your help. Thanks to all in advance.
(Joost, I'm using the snippet from the user manual for the vb6 libs, thanks)

zimsms
13th July 2004 15:09 UTC

Try this.