[NSIS-Bugs] [ nsis-Bugs-1065444 ] oleaut32.dll lays time bomb?

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Bugs item #1065444, was opened at 2004-11-12 13:26
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Category: Scripting
Group: 2.0 Series
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: oleaut32.dll lays time bomb?

Initial Comment:
I've had a problem with my win98se system, which I
believe I have traced back to an NSIS-induced problem.
I may be confused, but I'll explain to the best of my
ability what I think happened.

1. I recently installed win XP SP2. I believe this
replaced oleaut32.dll version 3.50.5016.0 with version
5.1.2600.2180
2. I now created an NSIS installer, using the
recommended script to install/upgrade oleaut32.dll.
This script grabbed the file from $SYSDIR, where it got
the new version.
3. I now ran this installer on a win98se system. This
replaced oleaut32.dll with the newer version.
4. The win98se system is now broken. The error message
is something like "oleaut32.dll failed to load", but
I'm unwilling to break the thing again to see for sure...

Suggested action:
1. In
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/archive/viewpage.php?pageid=47
at least warn about this possibility in the
documentation. Place a strong recommendation to get the
recommended files from microsoft (by following the
provided link) or (if you have it), from the developer
studio program files. On my system, some of these files
are found at
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
Studio\VB98\Wizards\PDWizard\Redist

Better yet, make it hard for the user to do this wrong,
by changing the script to something like
!insertmacro InstallLib REGDLL $ALREADY_INSTALLED
REBOOT_PROTECTED      "oleaut32.dll" "$VBDIR\oleaut32.dll" "$SYSDIR"
(note $VBDIR which user will need to modify or supply)

Rich
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1-425-337-7129

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