I had a hunch about that, just a bit timid with the knife.
What do you think the definition of 'unnecessary' is?
If I were to guess, I'd hack out <class>, <typelib>, <registryvalue>
elements that refer to things not defined in my DLL itself. For example,
in my heat-generated *.wxs I see a <class> element for VBPropertyBag, a
<RegistryValue> for msvbvm60.dll, two <RegistryValue> elements for a
helpdir in system32, a <TypeLib> for VBA, and a <TypeLib> for Visual
Basic runtime objects and procedures.
Thanks, Mark
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil
Sleightholm
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 3:51 PM
To: Cheyne, Mark A - DNR; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Heat and vb6 dll?
In my experience I have found you need to remove the detritus
that Microsoft feels the need to include during the self registration of
VB6 COM DLLs. So basically I use heat/tallow as a guide to save time,
then hack out all the unnecessary items.
Neil
From: Cheyne, Mark A - DNR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 12 June 2007 23:45
To: Neil Sleightholm; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Heat and vb6 dll?
As Neil's reply is actually a solution to my other post:
http://www.mail-archive.com/wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg09440.htm
l
I thought I'd restate _this_ problem, which remains unsolved.
The problem here is that I run heat.exe on a VB6 DLL that I
authored, as a way to generate a *.wxs file containing a <FRAGMENT> with
all the COM registration muck I need to install and register that DLL.
The problem is that the output *.wxs contains errors that prevent me
from building. See my enumeration of errors 1, 2, 3 at the bottom of
this thread.
Any thoughts? These errors refer to a class and typelibs that
are part of VB6 itself, not my DLL, and yet heat.exe emits (erroneous,
incomplete?) metadata about them when I point it at my DLL.
Thanks, all - I'm almost there! Mark
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