Regsvr32 fails on VC6 ATL COM EXE

[BeanDog]

I could not get a .exe server to register on a Win98SE machine so I did this to verify it:

I created a new ATL AppWizard project in VC++6. I chose .EXE and clicked OK. I added a single ATL object and compiled it. It registered fine on my 2k machine. I moved it to the 98SE machine and Regsvr32 told me I was missing a necessary library file for it (returned 0x0000000b)

I repeated the entire last procedure but chose .DLL instead of .EXE and the 98SE machine regsvr32'd it fine. In other words, 98SE apparently does not support out-of-process COM servers.

It is a newly formatted and installed system. No other application was installed, although I downloaded all of the *critical* updates from Windows Update.

I have already tried installing DCom98 on the 98 machine, and it had no effect.



~BenDilts( void );
PS Wow, do I have enough TLA's in that subject?

 

[mattKnight]

Thinks...

Not tried on WIN 98 so I may be being ignorant...

but on NT regsvr32 only registers .DLLs
.EXE servers are self-registering (ish)
try
<comexeservername> /regserver
if Foo is server name

foo.exe /regserver

Matt