Heat does not extract for 64-bit dlls. We have had to write a script to "convert" the 32 bit extraction into 64 bit.
________________________________ From: Michael Scheepers <mscheep...@tool-links.de> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 2:56 AM Subject: [WiX-users] harvesting COM information using heat.exe results in HEAT5150 Hi there, I try to extract the self-register information for a COM file written with VB6 a long time ago. If I use regsvr32 to register the file manually on Win7 64-bit it works fine. But when I try to extract the information using heat with the following command line, just the file tag is generated, without having the com information extracted. Command line: heat file file.dll -sfrag -srd -suid -svb6 -out file.wxi Result: heat.exe : warning HEAT5150 : Could not harvest data from a file that was expected to be a SelfReg DLL: path\to\file.dll. If this file does not support SelfReg you can ignore this warning. Otherwise, this error detail may be helpful to diagnose the failure: Ein Aufrufziel hat einen Ausnahmefehler verursacht. When I use Dependency Walker I can see, that a delay-load dependency to GPSVC.DLL was not found. That might be, because I am running a Windows 7 64-bit machine, but the DLL is for a x86 architecture, but again: registering the file using regsvr32 works fine. I searched the internet and found an article [1] where the solution is to change the architecture of the dll to 64-bit, but that is no option to me. So is there an other way to have the file self-registered during installation except using 2 custom actions to call regsvr32 and regsvr32 /u Regards, Michel [1] http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-IE/vcgeneral/thread/93f8509b-b6e8-45a8-81a4-a7a127385d84 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
