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RE: [WiX-users] Looking for Simple COM Component Install Info
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From: Subbu B. <Sub...@au...> - 2005-03-08 03:23:48
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Thanks for the reminder Orion - I did notice tallow sporting a new switch! Old habits eh? There you go Jamieson, you'll still need regcap.exe though. -----Original Message----- From: Orion Edwards [mailto:or...@co...] Sent: Tuesday, 8 March 2005 2:16 PM To: Subbu Balakrishnan Cc: 'Jamison Wilde'; wix...@li... Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Looking for Simple COM Component Install Info tallow in later builds will also convert a .reg file to a wix fragment, so that's probably easier and more reliable :-) Quoting Subbu Balakrishnan <Sub...@au...>: > Hi Jamison > > You may want to use the (VS 2003.NET installed) utility RegCap.exe which (in > my experience atleast) does a decent job of COM self-registration capture > and works with .EXE/.TLB files as well. Parse the resultant output manually > into WiX format or (better) use Orion Edwards' Reg2Wxi utility (you'll need > to email him at orion<at>coke.net.nz for this) to convert the .reg format > that RegCap.exe uses into a WiX Fragment. > > HTH > Regards > Subbu > > COM self-registration in MSIs is evil! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jamison Wilde [mailto:jam...@ya...] > Sent: Tuesday, 8 March 2005 9:03 AM > To: wix...@li... > Subject: [WiX-users] Looking for Simple COM Component Install Info > > > I've tried reading the info here, but it all seems > incomplete, or assumes lots of knowledge of Windows > Installer already. There is no basic info for people > coming to this for this first time in my opinion, > besides the excellent tutorial at > http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/. > > I have never written an installer before, and will > probably only do it a couple more times in my life, so > I'm approaching this from a purely utilitarian point > of view. I don't care how it works, as long as it > does, and I have no philisophical attachment to the > various methods that can be used. > > I have a COM DLL Windows Explorer Shell Extension, > which itself uses COM to talk to a Proxy Stub DLL. > This p/s is for talking to an EXE COM Server. The > purpose of this com exe server is to dynamically > generate the right click context menu in explorer > based on the file information, passing back the (wire > marshalled) modified HMENU, which works just fine. > Additonal info on this application (ExQueues Shell > Queue) can be found here: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/shellqueue > > I have the installer already set up to copy the > relevant files to their destinations, which works just > fine. Now normally, for testing, all I have to do is > type 'regsvr32.exe [mypath]' to 'self-register' the > DLLs. And then run the executable to self-register it > too. > > I very simply need the WiX generated MSI to register > these DLLS. I have been unable to find a simple > example which shows this in action. > > I understand that I may need to create a Custom Action > to register my EXE-based Components, since this is not > supported by WiX, ala : > <CustomAction Id="Register" > FileKey="SelfRegistering_exe" > ExeCommand="/RegServer" > Execute="immediate" > Return="check"/> > > <CustomAction Id="Unregister" > FileKey="SelfRegistering_exe" > ExeCommand="/UnregServer" > Execute="immediate" > Return="check"/> > > <InstallExecuteSequence> > <Custom Action="Register" > > After="InstallFinalize">(ADDLOCAL="Feature_Default")</Custom> > <Custom Action="Unregister" > Before="RemoveFiles">(REMOVE="ALL")</Custom> > </InstallExecuteSequence> > > If this is still true, please verify this information. > If anyone has a more complete example, please post as > well (for example with the parent tags as well). > Where does this Custom Action go in the WiX source > file (in which or after which tags)? My wxs files is > based on Sample 4 from http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix > (and can be seen directly in CVS at my project page). > > I understand that there is some divisivness over using > 'SelfReg', but if it works for a simple project, do I > really want to generate another set of tasks to do at > build time? (Not asking rhetorically.) > > How do I register my 2 COM DLLs? 'tallow' does > nothing but fall over (invalid format) for my DLLs)and > exe obviously). How would I use self-reg for these, > since it seems to work just fine using regsrv32? Do I > need to use the <COmponent><Class> child tag? If so, > are there some examples of > this(web/mailarchive/personal), including which guids > need to be used where? > > Thanks for your time, and hope others may find the > answers(?) useful as well. I apologize if the answers > are already on this list, but the basic search > functions suck at sf, and google has fits with things > like 'com' 'server' 'register'. > > S. 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