Please Help Me to Create Setup file with ISTool

[Andraw]

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

[randem]

Many people recommend use INNO Setup & ISTool.

Who were these people????

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.

[Andraw]

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

[Andraw]

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

Thanks!

[Andraw]

What did this mean "Translating a SETUP.LST file created with the P&D wizard
"?
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