Hello, Thanks for the tip, Richard. It certainly sounds like using the COM/Registry tables would be the smart way to go. However I'm finding myself snared in the one pitfall after another as a newcomer to WiX and to the details of COM.
What I've gathered so far: Heat has an -scom flag that is being used when harvesting the directory in which this EXE resides. If I remove that flag I get a candle error indicating that I need to specify the Server attribute for a number of OTHER DLLs which were not causing any issue when harvested with -scom. It seems suppressing COM gets me closer to success, but I'm still not certain of the ramifications of it. All I know is that nothing is getting registered by the installer. Can anyone recommend a book/article/link that gives more detail about various types of registration? Raj > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 7:11 PM > To: WiX Users > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Registering an EXE via a Custom Action > > > You're better off extracting the registration information from the EXE > and using the COM/Registry tables to register the necessary classes. > > Its *much* easier and *much* more robust to use the tables for COM > registration than it is to use custom actions. > -- > "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available > for download > <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> > > Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/> > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and > a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
