Are you running tallow on dlls or an exe? I get the same errors as you on an exe file but you said in the original post that you were trying to register some dlls? Tallow should be run on the dlls not on the exe itself.
On 02/08/07, Alexei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yup - that WAS with the -s flag. > However I've just been handed an updated version of the app, and now tallow > is throwing all sorts of exceptions - they're at the end of the post. > > Is there anything that needs to be done in the source code for tallow to > work? Any special preprocessor instructions for example? > The code isn't mine I'm afraid so I don't really know what's in there. > > As a last resort - can I gather the information needed by hand somehow? > I read something about using RegCap.exe in this discussion: > http://www.nabble.com/On-registering-DLLs-tf1178261.html#a3100093 > I've got that exe kicking about but the help for it isn't really all that > useful (for me anyway), anyone know how the hell to use it and what it's > for? > > and now the aforementioned errors/exceptions: > > tallow.exe : fatal error TLLW0001: unexpected argument on command line: > Lanmon E > xtractor.exe > > Stack Trace: > at > Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Tallow.TallowMain.ParseCommandLi > ne(String[] args) > at > Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Tallow.TallowMain..ctor(String[] > args) > at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Tallow.Main(String[] args) > > > > > > Antony Walmsley wrote: > > > > What parameters are you passing to tallow? I use "tallow -s" on my VC6 > > dlls and I get a list of registry values. > > > > On 02/08/07, Alexei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi guys, > >> I've been asked to write an installer for an application that requires > >> two > >> dlls to be registered. > >> I've tried running tallow on the executable but it doesn't generate > >> anything > >> useful: > >> > >> Microsoft (R) Windows Installer Xml Tool version 2.0.5325.0 > >> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 2003. All rights reserved. > >> > >> <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2003/01/wi";> > >> <Fragment> > >> <DirectoryRef Id="TARGETDIR"> > >> <Component Id="component0" DiskId="1" Guid="PUT-GUID-HERE"> > >> <File Id="file0" Name="Product.EXE" LongName="My Product > >> Title.exe" > >> Source="C:\WiX\wix2.0 work\Product Title\Product Title.exe" /> > >> </Component> > >> </DirectoryRef> > >> </Fragment> > >> </Wix> > >> > >> (Aside from the name of the product I haven't touched anything) > >> > >> I would presume this is because the whole thing is in Visual C++ (VS6) > >> and > >> so tallow is unable to retrieve the needed metadata for the dll > >> registration > >> information. Something along those lines anyhow. > >> > >> I'm pretty stuck as to where I could retrieve the needed data. I do have > >> access to the source, and so I've looked in the .rgs files and such, but > >> I'm > >> still confused as to how I tell what entries I need to make. > >> -- > >> View this message in context: > >> http://www.nabble.com/registering-VC%2B%2B-dlls-tf4206329.html#a11965147 > >> Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > >> Still grepping through log files to find problems? 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