Re: Does regxpcom needs XPCOM.dll?

yueweng wrote:

> Doug Turner <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> 
>>yueweng wrote:
>>>
>>>I have to manually copy xpcom from gecko-sdk\bin into mozilla\mozilla
>>>directory in order for it to execute without output anything.  May I
>>>know why mozilla installation pakage 1.7-rc3 comes without xpcom.dll?
>>>Does regxpcom.exe designed to work without xpcom.dll?  If regxpcom.exe
>>>is designed to work with xpcom.dll, then I think the installation
>>>package should include this file during installation.
>>
>>regxpcom.exe does not link against xpcom.dll.  See `regxpcom -h`.
> 
> Thanks for your information for the past two questions.  You are
> right, regxpcom.exe does not link against xpcom.dll.  But may I know
> which dll is required for regxpcom.exe to run?  Which dll is the XPCOM
> Glue package?  I got the following error in the default installation
> pakage:

As Doug said, see 'regxpcom -h' -- specifically the -x option to tell it
where to find xpcom.dll and the GRE components.

Mozilla most definitely comes with xpcom.dll, but unless you ran the
installer with the "-greLocal" command line those files are placed in a
shared location under (typically) c:\program files\common files\mozilla.org

-Dan Veditz