How do I register.net library thru NSIS Script

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gnanaprakash
11th January 2007 14:27 UTC

How do I register.net library thru NSIS Script
Hi,

How do I register.net library thru NSIS Script.Pls provide me sample script.

Thanks in Advance;)

kichik
11th January 2007 21:17 UTC

The following Wiki page has some information about this.

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Register...DLL_in_the_GAC

gnanaprakash
12th January 2007 16:31 UTC

Hi,

I tried to put my dll in GAC by using the below script but I was not able to register.

;R0 "$INSTDIR\mydll.dll"'
nsExec::Exec '"$WINDIR\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.432\GacUtil.exe" /i "$R0" /f'

for the GACUtil do I need to give the above path or "..\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\gacutil\"

Iam not sure what's wrong in it.Even I tried like this

ExecWait '"$WINDIR\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.432\GacUtil.exe" /i "$INSTDIR\mydll.dll"' still I am not able to register.

Thanks

kichik
12th January 2007 18:15 UTC

If you point to the Visual Studio directory, only users with Visual Studio will be able to install your application. You don't want that. Probably a better overall solution would be including gacutil.exe with your installer.

gnanaprakash
13th January 2007 09:17 UTC

After Calling this script
R0 "$INSTDIR\mydll.dll"'
nsExec::Exec '"$WINDIR\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.432\GacUtil.exe" /i "$R0" /f'
;(or)
ExecWait '"$WINDIR\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.432\GacUtil.exe" /i "$INSTDIR\mydll.dll"' still I am not able to register.

I was not able to find "mydll.dll" in GAC.

What's wrong in it?.

kichik
13th January 2007 16:13 UTC

Does that work from the command line? Are you sure gacutil.exe really exists? Why not package gacutil.exe with your installer, as I suggested?

gnanaprakash
15th January 2007 15:24 UTC

Yes it's working in command line and gacutil is exists in "\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.432\GacUtil.exe"

kichik
16th January 2007 18:34 UTC

Try executing it with nsExec. Maybe it prints some kind of an error.

gnanaprakash
17th January 2007 05:29 UTC

Hi,

I have one more gacutil under the following folder.

nsExec::Exec '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\gacutil.exe"

If I use the above path in the script It's registering .

If I use this path it's not registering. "\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.432\GacUtil.exe"

Thanks,
Gnanaprakash

Red Wine
17th January 2007 06:18 UTC

nsExec::Exec '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\gacutil.exe"

this path points to your local system, probably is not valid for every target.

If I use this path it's not registering. "\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.432\GacUtil.exe"

Also, this one is partially hard coded therefore useless for every machine.
Why not just package gacutil with your installer as kichik suggested twice?
If you want anyway to use the gacutil that resides on the target, you need to grab in a variable the framework path from registry, and use it like this,

ReadRegStr $0 HKLM "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework" "InstallRoot"
nsExec::Exec "$0\v1.1.4322\gacutil.exe"

gnanaprakash
18th January 2007 11:38 UTC

Yes,I am packaging gacutil with installer as kichik suggested .

Thanks for helping me :)

mayevski
27th February 2007 10:34 UTC

You are not allowed to distribute GACUtil.
Also, different versions of gacutil (namely, 1.1 and 2.0) install the assemblies to different GACs (1.1 and 2.0 accordingly). So the correct way is to use Fusion DLLs on the target systems.

zanz
30th July 2008 02:32 UTC

I read the following note from the link posted by kichik:
- The above will not work in most cases on Vista, since you need permissions to do it. So we need some way to do the above from within NSIS. I have no idea how.

Retrieved from "http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Register_a_managed_.NET_DLL_in_the_GAC"

Is there any alternative for Vista? If my permission level is set to 'admin' would I still have problem on Vista? thanks!