How to Register TLB files???

online
5th November 2001 10:22 UTC

How to Register TLB files???
I have a TLB (type library) file that need to be installed (in order to install a VB application). I cant see any way to do that in the installer...ideas?

/Jon

prodangle
5th November 2001 13:01 UTC

Aren't tlb's just used when coding VB??? I don't think they need to be distributed with the application :confused:

Maybe I'm wrong though...

online
5th November 2001 13:10 UTC

found a way through ExecWait "regtlib -q stdole2.tlb"

prodangle
9th November 2001 12:47 UTC

Originally posted by prodangle
Aren't tlb's just used when coding VB??? I don't think they need to be distributed with the application :confused:

Maybe I'm wrong though...

Yep, I was completely wrong :)

MerijnB
27th November 2001 09:23 UTC

hi,

just to hook on to this question: i also need to register a tlb file for a delphi made com object. I solved it by including borlands tregsvr.exe in the installer. But, since i want to unregister it when uninstalling too, i have to include the tregsvr.exe in the uninstaller also. This means that i have to include 2 x 960 kB extra in my installer. Maybe it's an idea to put registering TLB's into NSIS itself ?

Merijn

justin
27th November 2001 09:38 UTC

Registering a TLB is probably doable from within nsis right now, I just don't know how (what symbol do you have to call, etc?).

The other possibility is to extract the regtlb.exe to your program directory (or a subdir), and call it on install and uninstall, then have the uninstaller uninstall it after it is done being used..

-Justin

MerijnB
27th November 2001 13:09 UTC

Justin,

thnx for the quick reply

in the mean time, i made a little TLB reg util which doesn't output to the console (so you don't see the anoying console flicker you see with regtlib). Anyway... if it could be done with NSIS we be even better.. I don't know what you mean with the symbols to call..

i'm interseted in some experimenting though... let me know if you need something from me ...

btw. if anybody is interested in the TLB reg tool in the mean time.. let me know, i'll mail it

Merijn