jpodtbc
27th November 2006 23:57 UTC

trouble registering dll
hi all.

i'm having trouble registering my BHO DLL.

i can manually register it using "regasm /codebase file.dll" and all the appropriate registry entries are created.

however, after searching through the forums for quite some time and trying all the offered solutions for registering a DLL with nsis, i'm still stuck.

i tried the following:

SetOutPath $INSTDIR
...
File "file.dll"
RegDLL "$INSTDIR\file.dll" 

but i get an error when i check with IfErrors.

i also tried using the InstallLib macro as follows:

!define LIBRARY_COM 
!insertmacro InstallLib REGDLL NOTSHARED NOREBOOT_NOTPROTECTED "path_to_local\file.dll" "$INSTDIR\file.dll" "$SYSDIR"

but this also raised the error flag. i checked the registry manually and the DLL is never being registered properly.

i don't know if it has to do with it being a COM object. i've tried installing the dependency into the same directory before registering but still no luck. it's strange, though, because regasm registers the DLL fine when the dependency is not there.

thanks for any help...

jpodtbc
28th November 2006 01:27 UTC

i have further compiled my dll using a strong name and it still doesn't work for either case...shrug.

kichik
30th November 2006 17:09 UTC

RegDLL isn't the same as regasm.exe. The latter registers a .NET assembly. The first merely calls DllRegisterServer from the DLL. You'll have to manually call regasm.

jpodtbc
30th November 2006 17:42 UTC

that's strange because there were at least a couple of other threads in which users were asking how to circumvent having to use regasm.exe to register their .NET dlls. they were repeatedly told to use RegDLL/UnRegDLL or the InstallLib/UninstallLib macros.


does anyone know if the UpgradeDLL registers .NET assemblies?

kichik
30th November 2006 18:43 UTC

UpgradeDLL uses RegDLL, so it doesn't.