I have reproduced the problem and had tried to debug it. I'm not sure how long it'll take because I'm swamped with other stuff at the moment. R wrote: > hi, > > i want to try out stand alone xpinstall, i.e. xpinstall from the command > line & running it as an exe. So I compiled the code present in > \mozilla\xpinstall\wizard\windows\test folder(i have read in a previous post > that this is the code for stand alone xpinstall). > After compiling succcessfully, i ran the .exe file created by the > compilation(a file called Testxpi.exe) However this gives me the following > error: > > ###!!! ASSERTION: You can't dereference a NULL nsCOMPtr with operator->().: > 'mRa > wPtr != 0', file ..\..\dist\include\nsCOMPtr.h, line 652 > ###!!! Break: at file ..\..\dist\include\nsCOMPtr.h, line 652 > > This error is thrown because it fails to create a log file. I feel that in > the source code given for xpinstall there is an error & an initialization > which is required for maintaining a log file is not done. > > Can anyone offer any suggestions or help? Can anyone tell me why i'm getting > this error or how do I eliminate this error? > > thanx.
