Apportioning blame where required: the spurious entries are generated by the VB6 DllRegisterServer code, not by Heat. Heat does not know what the DllRegisterServer code does, it simply captures the changes the DLL made to the registry. The sterile environment supplied by Heat for the DLL to inject its changes into sometimes does cause the DLL to do too much (or to fail to run outright). If you get weird output, crashes, unexplained message boxes, debug the DllRegisterServer function. The sterile environment does not include the registry entries needed for side-by-side DLLs to work (last I checked), so anything dynamically linked to the version 7.0 or later C runtime won't load and run.
If you can avoid having to capture the output, you should do so. It *is* possible (though not fun) to work out what VB6 DLLs will do by studying the embedded type library; use the OLE/COM Object Viewer (oleview.exe) from Visual Studio (ships with all versions - VS6 adds a shortcut to the Start menu, VS7 and later in Common7\Tools\Bin - you may need to install some optional components). To reduce the amount of change required in your WiX script, use one of the COM compatibility options in VB - Project Compatibility or Binary Compatibility. That will keep GUIDs stable until you make a change to your interface. -- Mike Dimmick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dyson, Peter Sent: 21 May 2007 10:58 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Using heat.exe as part of an automated build Although Rob et al, don't recommend this approach we have been using Heat, and it's predecessor, as part of our automated build process for over a year with Wix3. The main things to be wary of are the spurious entries generated by Heat, for example VB6 entries which should not be there. However this is where XML shines, using both Xpath and tranforms, you can sanitise the output from heat directly into compilable code. We use Ant as our main build tool and xmltask a contributed package for ant works very well for the substitions and removal. I am unaware if Nant has a similar package. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
