[RESOLVED] VB 6 and CR XI packaging problem

Why does this have to be such a pain... just trying to package my VB6 App that uses the CRVeiwer to show reports. Ofcourse they couldn't make it easy to package the 2 together. Now I have tried the VBInstaller and tried including the merge modules that are supposed to make this so easy but when I add them to my project the errors stay the same.. is there anything I am supposed to be doing besides just adding the merge modules as files?

Missing DLL's keycode.dll and unicows.dll..

I have tried Innosetup also, but all that does is add the modules to the package and distributes them when installing the application. Don't think that is really going to help.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

I finally got it packaged using P&DW after I installed vb sp6, but now at the end of the install it is erroring when it tries to register the .dll's... anyone got any ideas?

You can look at the CR site http://www.businessobjects.com for assistance

I have gone to their site and found this .pdf which did solve some of my problem...


http://support.businessobjects.com/c...deployment.pdf

The problem is, the document tells me to modify 2 dependency files, craxdrt.dep and craxddrt.dep that are stored in the 2.5/bin/ directory. I only found craxdrt.dep in that directory. I modified the one that I could find and it cleared up alot of the error messages that I got while trying to build the solution. However, I was still left with one error about the Keycode.dll having an invalid SourceFile property.

I then found the keycode.dll in another directory and copied it into the 2.5/bin/ and was able to package the application. But when I install the application on a client machine it goes through most of the installation and then errors at the end when it fails to register craxddrt.dll, obviously because I couldn't find the dependency file that I needed to alter...

Anyone had any luck getting vb6 and crxi to package?

Yes, but I don't use PDW...

I am using VSInstaller now like the .pdf recommended... and now have a "case" open with Business Objects support. Hopefully they will resolve the issue so I can post the solution. It is pretty sad that I have to modify thier own dependency files.

Also Randem are you affiliated with **********? I wanted to try the trial again but couldn't because I tried it like 6 months ago on my dev machine. Is there anything I can do to use the trial again?

Yes, I am the author of ********** but there is no way to reset the trial...

Finally got it to package after altering craxdrt.dep, copying keycode.dll to the 2.5/bin and adding the CR Merge Modules to the package.