joey buttafuco
2nd March 2006 20:37 UTC

Proper Installation of VB6 System Files
Hello. I'm coming over from Inno Setup and it seems like "SetOverwrite ifnewer" isn't the right way to approach the following 6 necessary files for a VB6 project:

stdole2.tlb
msvbvm60.dll
oleaut32.dll
olepro32.dll
asycfilt.dll
comcat.dll

Here are the flags that I used to set in Inno:

; begin VB system files
Source: "E:\Ichiban Sudoku\SysFiles\stdole2.tlb"; DestDir: "{sys}"; Flags: restartreplace uninsneveruninstall sharedfile regtypelib
Source: "E:\Ichiban Sudoku\SysFiles\msvbvm60.dll"; DestDir: "{sys}"; Flags: restartreplace uninsneveruninstall sharedfile regserver
Source: "E:\Ichiban Sudoku\SysFiles\oleaut32.dll"; DestDir: "{sys}"; Flags: restartreplace uninsneveruninstall sharedfile regserver
Source: "E:\Ichiban Sudoku\SysFiles\olepro32.dll"; DestDir: "{sys}"; Flags: restartreplace uninsneveruninstall sharedfile regserver
Source: "E:\Ichiban Sudoku\SysFiles\asycfilt.dll"; DestDir: "{sys}"; Flags: restartreplace uninsneveruninstall sharedfile
Source: "E:\Ichiban Sudoku\SysFiles\comcat.dll"; DestDir: "{sys}"; Flags: restartreplace uninsneveruninstall sharedfile regserver
; end VB system files

Should I be switching SetOverwrite to Off? I think you want to update these files if possible though, right?

Also, is there some equivalent of the restartreplace, where a file in use will be updated but the user will be asked to reboot? I had two files that I had to ignore updating on my first try at installing.

Thanks.

kichik
2nd March 2006 20:41 UTC

There's a section in the documentation about the installation of VB6 runtimes. The Library macros handle overwriting the files.

Joey Buttafuco
2nd March 2006 21:22 UTC

Thanks for the link!

I added the code

 !include Library.nsh

 Var ALREADY_INSTALLED

 Section "-Install VB6 runtimes"

   ;Add code here that sets $ALREADY_INSTALLED to a non-zero value if the application is already installed. For example:

   IfFileExists "$INSTDIR\ichiban.exe" 0 new_installation ;Replace MyApp.exe with your application filename
     StrCpy $ALREADY_INSTALLED 1
   new_installation:

   !insertmacro InstallLib REGDLL $ALREADY_INSTALLED REBOOT_NOTPROTECTED "msvbvm60.dll" "$SYSDIR\msvbvm60.dll" "$SYSDIR"
   !insertmacro InstallLib REGDLL $ALREADY_INSTALLED REBOOT_PROTECTED    "oleaut32.dll" "$SYSDIR\oleaut32.dll" "$SYSDIR"
   !insertmacro InstallLib REGDLL $ALREADY_INSTALLED REBOOT_PROTECTED    "olepro32.dll" "$SYSDIR\olepro32.dll" "$SYSDIR"
   !insertmacro InstallLib REGDLL $ALREADY_INSTALLED REBOOT_PROTECTED    "comcat.dll"   "$SYSDIR\comcat.dll"   "$SYSDIR"
   !insertmacro InstallLib DLL    $ALREADY_INSTALLED REBOOT_PROTECTED    "asycfilt.dll" "$SYSDIR\asycfilt.dll" "$SYSDIR"
   !insertmacro InstallLib TLB    $ALREADY_INSTALLED REBOOT_PROTECTED    "stdole2.tlb"  "$SYSDIR\stdole2.tlb"  "$SYSDIR"

 SectionEnd

 Section "-un.Uninstall VB6 runtimes"

   !insertmacro UnInstallLib REGDLL SHARED NOREMOVE "$SYSDIR\msvbvm60.dll"
   !insertmacro UnInstallLib REGDLL SHARED NOREMOVE "$SYSDIR\oleaut32.dll"
   !insertmacro UnInstallLib REGDLL SHARED NOREMOVE "$SYSDIR\olepro32.dll"
   !insertmacro UnInstallLib REGDLL SHARED NOREMOVE "$SYSDIR\comcat.dll"
   !insertmacro UnInstallLib DLL    SHARED NOREMOVE "$SYSDIR\asycfilt.dll"
   !insertmacro UnInstallLib TLB    SHARED NOREMOVE "$SYSDIR\stdole2.tlb"

 SectionEnd

kichik
3rd March 2006 09:33 UTC

Does it actually say "${LOCALFILE}" instead of, say, msvbvm60.dll? Which line in your script produces this error? Have you tried providing a full path to the DLLs in the fourth macro parameter?