error in EXE

[madmaxmenon]

Hi,
I have an executable of my code which acts like a server. When i run the code on my machine it works fine. When i try to run the exe on another machine (running windows) it shows this error:
Component "MSWINSCK.OCX" or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid

[MartinLiss]

Did you install it on the other machine or simply copy the exe with or without some other files?

[gavio]

"MSWINSCK.OCX" is a component - Winsock, which does not exist on that machine. You need to create setup (Inno, Nullsoft, MS P&D Wizard...) from your project in order to copy and register all components.

[MartinLiss]

"MSWINSCK.OCX" is a component - Winsock, which does not exist on that machine. You need to create setup (Inno, Nullsoft...) from your project in order to copy and register all components.

The P&D Wizard, which like Inno is free, and comes with VB6 should also be in that list.

[madmaxmenon]

Thanks Martin and Gavio,
I figured it was an exe, so i need not install anything ... i guess i was wrong. How would i create a setup that would copy and register the components?

P.S. I also read and write to the registry, would that make a difference?

[gavio]

I would suggest you to use Inno. It's quite easy. I think you can write to registry with script, but you can also write to registry at first app startup.

[MartinLiss]

I moved this thread since it's a deployment problem. Gavio you can write to the registry at any time.

[gavio]

Gavio you can write to the registry at any time.

Yes. I pointed it out cause it's a raplacement for doing it with setup.

[madmaxmenon]

Im really lost with this thing here, dont even know what Inno does
I looked at one of the examples

; -- Example1.iss --
; Demonstrates copying 3 files and creating an icon.
 
; SEE THE DOCUMENTATION FOR DETAILS ON CREATING .ISS SCRIPT FILES!
 
[Setup]
AppName=My Program
AppVerName=My Program version 1.5
DefaultDirName={pf}\My Program
DefaultGroupName=My Program
UninstallDisplayIcon={app}\MyProg.exe
Compression=lzma
SolidCompression=yes
OutputDir=userdocs:Inno Setup Examples Output
 
[Files]
Source: "MyProg.exe"; DestDir: "{app}"
Source: "MyProg.chm"; DestDir: "{app}"
Source: "Readme.txt"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: isreadme
 
[Icons]
Name: "{group}\My Program"; Filename: "{app}\MyProg.exe"

Can i build on this example? If yes, can i just use my program name everywhere? and what about the other fields like default directory name, version name etc..

[gavio]

Dunno...

; SEE THE DOCUMENTATION FOR DETAILS ON CREATING .ISS SCRIPT FILES!etc...

[randem]

That's why the third party tools for Inno Setup were created...