Sooz24
18th September 2009 12:58 UTC

Regasm and Vista
Hope I'm not duplicating something already covered - but if I am, I can't find the answer!

I have an NSIS installer that runs fine under Windows XP, but under Vista the RegAsm line fails as needing to be run as administrator.
ExecWait '$INSTDIR\System\RegAsm.exe /codebase CryptoClass.dll /t'

Also the registration of a dll fails
RegDLL "$INSTDIR\System\MailBee.dll"

I can do the registrations manually by starting up a command window (Start, Ctrl-Shift-Enter), changing to my $INSTDIR\System folder then running
RegAsm.exe /codebase CryptoClass.dll /t'

and
RegSvr32 MailBee.dll

So I assume it is a UAC problem. How do I modify my script to resolve the problem?

thek
18th September 2009 14:25 UTC

it think the answer to your problem is:
RequestExecutionLevel
its explained in the NSIS Manual

Sooz24
18th September 2009 14:55 UTC

Could you possibly give me a hint as to where to look in the Manual!

MSG
18th September 2009 15:02 UTC

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.8.1.32

The command reference is your friend.

Sooz24
18th September 2009 15:28 UTC

OK - (sorry if I'm being stupid, but am new to NSIS although a long-time programmer..)
This doesn't seem to have made a difference...

Firstly I unregistered Mailbee.dll manually

Then I inserted RequestExecutionLevel admin at the start of my script and compiled it

Then reran the install and started up my (MS Access-based) App.
It flagged that the Mailbee reference was missing - so I conclude that RegDll still didn't have authority. Unfortunately it all runs too fast to spot any errors being output

Sooz24
19th September 2009 01:00 UTC

It now works - not sure what I did unfortunately!