[DUG] Registering DLL's

[Todd Martin]

Yes I understand that. Is the DLL your own code or from a third party?

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 12:08 PM David O'Brien <Dave at iccs.co.nz> wrote:

> Just trying to register the dll manually in a admin command prompt
> “Regsvr32 mydll.dll” is the issue, nothing to do with any other code. This
> returns to the command prompt with no messages but hangs regsvr32.
>
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> *From:* delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz <
> delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz> *On Behalf Of *Todd Martin
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 11 May 2021 6:47 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [DUG] Registering DLL's
>
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>
> You haven't given much detail to go on.
>
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>
> Presumably you're registering your COM objects in the Initialization
> section of your Delphi units. What else is happening there that might be
> starting other threads?
>
> I would comment out everything except the Factory.Create() methods to
> narrow down the source of the problem.
>
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> On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 5:46 PM Jan Bakuwel <jan.bakuwel at omiha.com> wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> On 11/05/21 2:01 pm, David O'Brien wrote:
> > We have multiple DLL's that get registered on install for one of our
> products. Lately for 2 out of 1000's of users the registration fails for
> one of the DLL's.
> >
> > The particular DLL can't be registered manually, regsvr32 hangs. It
> drops back to the command line after 3 or more seconds, but no messages,
> needs to be killed in task manager.
> >
> > I would suspect it to be the DLL that's at fault, but logging on as
> another user on the same machine it registers fine and works for that user.
> Even though it's registered by the second user, it hangs when trying to be
> loaded by the original user. All the other DLL's register and load fine, so
> I don't think it's permissions.
>
> Could it be an issue with the registry entries specific for that user?
>
> You could run scanreg.exe and see if that reveals anything.
>
> I trust you checked the event logs and didn't see anything in there.
>
>
> https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/description-of-the-windows-registry-checker-tool-scanreg-exe-aaae4323-daa2-8477-5a4e-2a273779fdf0
>
> cheers,
> Jan
>
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