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#78 installing app on NT4 fails due to missing SHLWAPI.dll
I have a clean, Win NT4 SP6a machine and when I
attempted to install my application which uses JWS
3.1.2, it fails when it cannot find the SHLWAPI.dll. I
located this dll on an XP machine in
c:\Windows\system32\ and copied it to the
c:\Winnt\system32\ directory and then my application
was able to be installed and run as a windows service.
Is this a documented dependency that I overlooked?
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That is the "Shell Light Weight Utility Library"
http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/dlllibrary/shlwapi/
As far as I know, the Wrapper does not directly require it
however, I do not currently have access to an NT system to
test this. Where are you seeing the error? If you run
Wrapper.exe -? do you get an error? Is it an error being
thrown after the JVM is launched?
I know that there are some features which are not supported
in NT simply because the requested system procedures are not
available. I have worked around the ones that I am aware
of. In those cases however you you were told that a
particular function could not be found, not an entire DLL.
You mention that you can not install your application. But
I am not clear exactly where the error is being thrown. As
a guess, try adding the wrapper.debug=true property to the
wrapper.conf file and try running it again. That may give
me more information about where exactly the error is being
thrown.
Cheers,
Leif
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For anyone who runs into this in the future, this DLL comes with Internet Explorer 4 and above. NT4 shipped with IE 2.0, so just update to IE >= 4 and you should be fine.