register dll fails on win98

[mackscynox]

Hi,

i have generated a setup of our project and need to register some dll's (activeX). I either used the register options (by checkbox in Advanced Options and with run regsvr32 with file run ). On win98 and ME os's we get the "The setup cannot change the registry" error and cannot register the dlls. But the user can manullay register dll's with regsvr32 .

I mean the setup installer cannot self-register the dlls but user can manually run "regsvr32 mydll" and successfully register.

I am using Setup Factory 6. Can you give me an explanation of this error?

NOTE: the setup works and registers the dlls on Win2000/XP/NT/Win2003 but fails at Win ME and 98Se.

[Adam]

There are some obscure cases where our registration code fails but Regsvr32.exe works. You could use an Execute File action to run regsvr32 and pass the path to the dll as a parameter. You could conditionally do this based on the user OS.

Adam Kapilik