Please Help Me to Create Setup file with ISTool

Hi, all,

I create a vb6 exe file and I created setup file by using vb package & deployment wizard, but It worked not well, when user install it, it always give error message "XXX.dll file is in in-use....", "xxx.dll has later version, recommend you keep your local verion......", very annoying, so I want to create a setup file using another way.

Many people recommend use INNO Setup & ISTool. I download this pack and follow the instruction as the following:
1: Installing the VB system DLLs, I download vb6sp6sys.zip and create a folder to extract all the dll files then drag them to ISTool "Files and Dirs", is it right? do I need to register them? How? or Do I need to replace my local files in /Windows/System32/?

2: My project also need msvcrt.dll, msimg32.dll, do I need to add them to ISTool? when I add it from my /Windows/System32/, when compile I got error message like "You cannot get this file from you local window system directory". so I create another folder and put these two dll files in that folder than add them to ISTool, no problem for compile now. But when I run the setup file, I got error "Unable to register the DLL/OCX: RegSvr32 failed with exit code 0x4". why??????

3: I ignor above error while setup, after finish I cannot find where the project is after setup, not in desktop, also not found in start->all programs. How can I set it be visible in start->all programs??????

Sorry I am total new for this topic and my schedule is very tie, please help me to go throught it.

Thanks a lot

Andraw

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Originally Posted by Andraw

Many people recommend use INNO Setup & ISTool.

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Who were these people???? :p

There are much better ways of getting this accomplished. Did you try the Inno Setup Wizard, It helps (not a lot, but better that from scratch) or other third party Inno Setup helper tools?. You also need to better understand how installation works a little better before blindly charging into it. Search and Read a few documents that have been prepared for users such as yourself to give you some understanding on the process. It will help greatly in the long run.

Thanks Randem for your reply.
I follow the instructions from "HOWTO: Install Visual Basic 6.0 Applications" and create on setup file, I install it in my computer, it works fines. But I still worry about it will miss some file while it is installed in client's computer.

I have three questions:
1: How can I check if all the needed files are included in the setup????

2: How to create setup.lst file?????

3: From some forum, they said msvcrt.dll, msimg32.dll and scrrun.dll.... files cannot be included in setup package because these files matches with Operating System, is it right????

Andraw

By the way, there is only a single setup.exe file after I use ISTool compile the .iss file, is it right????

Thanks!

What did this mean "Translating a SETUP.LST file created with the P&D wizard
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Did it mean to use it to check .iss file contain all the needed file? or directly use it to translate .iss file?

Thanks!

Andraw