Two of my library depends on the third. But the latter library must be copied to the system32 directory, another two - to the ProgramFiles directory. PLease could anyone advise on how to deal with registration of the first two libraries. I need to use self-registration. I tried to specify the id of the main library as a companion file, but it did not help. What should I do?
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see related post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/364187/how-do-you-register-a-win32-com-dll-in-wix3/364544#364544 – BryanJ Jun 04 '12 at 16:49
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Is your problem that they won't register in the order that you want or that they won't register at all? – bsara Dec 12 '12 at 23:43
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Question is whether you need proper *registration* or whether you must insist on *self-registration*. Self-registration is pretty bad and one of my thoughts reading your question was: what are the tasks besides registering the COM stuff that the person is doing? – 0xC0000022L Apr 08 '16 at 16:12
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MSI's SelfReg table doesn't support ordering the operation of registrations. You could use the QuietExec custom action to call regsvr32 /s in the right order but I wouldn't do it myself.
The optimal design is to not rely on self reg. Have you thoroughly exhausted using MSI to handle the registration data for you as it was designed to do?
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I agree: registration has be part of MSI package itself rather than relying on self-reg. – Alexey Ivanov Jun 05 '12 at 06:21