Xombie
12th August 2002 18:21 UTC

Windows 2000 DLL Registration
Okay, I looked around at the other posts similiar to this and I don't think I saw this one before. I made a simple installer for this program I have. Mostly it just copies support files (dlls) to directories & makes shortcuts since the actual program is on the network. Installing to a Windows NT machine causes no problems but when I install to a Windows 2000 machine two files don't seem to get registered - msjet35.dll and dao350.dll. No error message is generated during install but when the program is launched it gives error messages meaning it couldn't find the correct version (or any version) of those two files. Going to a command prompt and doing "regsvr32 blah blah" works because the files get copied. It just doesn't seem to register them.

I'm using the UpgradeDLL macro and a sample call goes like this:

SetOutPath $SYSDIR
ClearErrors
Push "$SYSDIR\msjet35.dll"
!define DLL_NAME msjet35.dll
!insertmacro UpgradeDLL

I apologize if something like this was posted and if it was, please direct me to where. Otherwise, I'd really like some help on this.

Thanks

kichik
13th August 2002 11:10 UTC

If both NSIS and regsvr32.exe can't register this DLL than it can't be a problem with NSIS. I would recommend seraching MSDN, Microsoft support, and of course Google. You can try DevShed forums too.

If no one has answered up until now, I guess no knows the answer. I sure don't :(

I hope you can find something in those other places... Good luck!

SmartyMan
13th August 2002 15:51 UTC

Re: Windows 2000 DLL Registration

Installing to a Windows NT machine causes no problems but when I install to a Windows 2000 machine two files don't seem to get registered - msjet35.dll and dao350.dll.