Bug in VB 6.0 Package Deployment wizard

[maxpower1]

I have an exe called reportmgr.exe (for crystal report
deployment setup). I used the VB Deployment wizard to
create the setup program. It complains about not finding
some dlls to be deployed. I clicked OK to resume assuming
that those dlls are not needed. After the wizard finished
running, I went into the package directory to run the setup.exe program. It is weird because it doesn't have the
computer setup icon (i.e. other typical setup program).
Instead it has that default vb icon (the square form).

I clicked it and it won't do anything. Does anyone know how to fix this.

Thanks

 

[johnwm]

When you run Setup wizard, get the dependency file. That tells you what dlls etc you need. Anything to do with Crystal needs several extra dlls Let me know if this helps
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[maxpower1]

thanks for the help. i need that file anyway. but the problem lies with the wizard.
It won't create the setup.exe correctly that after everything is done; when I tried to click on the setup.exe icon to deploy the program, it does not do anything - it does not launch the vb setup screen at all.

any clues?

thanks for the reply.

 

[VBProgrammer666]

Some thoughts....

P&D has a bug where is incorrectly tries to register type libraries using the DLLSelfRegister macro, see the Microsoft Knowledge base article number Q299645. I don't think this causes the install to hang, though.

You should also look into the setup.lst file, use article Q189743 as a guide.

Did you run the package component first, then the deployment component?

 

[windows98]

Did you install Service Pack 5?
Regards,
Henry

Henry Drillich
drillich@tpgi.com.au

 

[maxpower1]

Here is my my solution: I copied setup.exe from other installation program and it worked! I thus checked the deployment wizard directory and realized setup.exe was dated 02/03/95!!! I thus copied the new setup.exe to that directory and never got the same problem again.

Thanks for all your help.

 

[CCLINT]

As windows98 stated above: You need to install (or re-install) SP5! That should have also corrected the problem, among many other problems that will sooner or later surface.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/

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