It would appear that you are right...Thanks a lot for the help. However, why does tallow work on the wordcount sample on http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson5.php ? That is flagged as an executable, or is that just a dll in diguise?
Antony Walmsley wrote: > > 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. 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