utilcls.h?? 1

[BorlandDave]

I have changed nothing in my (previously working!) code but I have come up against an error. My program compiles fine, but an error is displayed when it is executed:

intf != 0 failed -C:\PROGRAM FILES\BORLAND\CBUILDER5\INCLUDE\VCL\utilcls.h/2868

I have no idea why this error has suddenly arrisen out of nowhere, but even my previous program backups from a month ago are coming up with it!

Can anyone help?

 

[2ffat]

Maybe that file is corrupt. Have you tried a restore of that file or reinstall/repair of Borland?


James P. Cottingham
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[BorlandDave]

But I'm wondering why the program is even looking for the file at runtime. Isn't this a developement file? the program is being run on many other computers, all of which don't have Borland installed, so the file path won't even exist.

 

[BorlandDave]

Has anyone else come across this error... and more to the point, been able to fix it! ;-)

 

[2ffat]

I see that this header file had a problem in an early version of BCB6. It was fixed in update 2 (

http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,29009,00.html)

but there has also been more recent updates, too (

http://bdn1.borland.com/article/0,1410,29793,00.html)

James P. Cottingham
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I'm number 1,229!}

 

[BorlandDave]

I only have BCB5 so I installed this update instead:

http://info.borland.com/devsupport/bcppbuilder/patches/

..but it didn't fix the problem :-(

The error only seems to occur when I don't install my app to the default location in Install Shield. Very odd.

 

[2ffat]

Oh, is the problem related to Install Shield? I quit using that and started making my own.

What happens if you manually install you program, that it, manually create the directory, set up registry, install program, etc.?


James P. Cottingham
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I'm number 1,229!}

 

[BorlandDave]

I've diagnosed the problem.

It turns out that the batch file I was using to register all the DCOM modules was location-specific. When The app was installed to a different location these no longer worked, so the DCOM creates in my code were failing.

So, my next question is regarding batch files. My current batch file is something like this:

tregsvr C:\Progra~1\MyApp\Module1.exe
tregsvr C:\Progra~1\MyApp\Module2.exe
tregsvr C:\Progra~1\MyApp\Module3.exe
tregsvr C:\Progra~1\MyApp\Module4.exe
EXIT

But the path "C:\Progra~1\MyApp\" depends on where the program is installed. I have a registry entry which stores the "install directory", but how do I include that in my batch file? The registry entry is in:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\MyApp\General\BasePath

I'm struggling to find any information on google.

 

[BorlandDave]

This seems to work, cheers for the help 2ffat!

FOR /F "tokens=2* delims= " %%A IN ('REG QUERY "HKLM\SOFTWARE\MyApp\General" /v BasePath') DO SET APPPATH=%%B
ECHO APPPATH=%APPPATH%

Utilities\tregsvr %APPPATH%\Module1.exe
Utilities\tregsvr %APPPATH%\Module2.exe
Utilities\tregsvr %APPPATH%\Module3.exe
Utilities\tregsvr %APPPATH%\Module4.exe