Re: DLL Hell, cannot install successfully

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"bsvensso" wrote:
|I have my own DLL developed in VB6 SP6 on NT4 SP4 and it consistently
| fails to install on other machines, except one which also happens to
| run NT4 SP4 and have VB6 installed. There seems to be a pattern but I
| cannot find it.
| Specifically I'm trying to install it on Win 2K and Win XP machines
| without luck.
|
| The DLL does not do anything particularly strange. It uses the VB
| Wizard Wizard to implement a Wizard for collecting various information
| for the program.
|
| All the dependent files seems to be available on all target machines.
| I checked with depend.exe and similar. When the program containing the
| component is installed it fails to register the DLL. Trying to
| register it separately with regsvr32 also fails with 0x80004005 (i.e.
| undefined error) so I cannot figure out what is wrong.
| There does not seem to be any information in the Event Viewer either.
|
| Everything of course works fine in the development environment.
| I used the Package and Deployment wizard to build the DLL dependency
| files and the program installer.
|
| Is there any tool that can give me more information about what the
| problem can be?
|
| Thanks!
|
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