Can't register CR XI runtime Dlls in Windows 7

Question

Hi master,
I develop the application using Delphi 7 and CR XI developer edition, and deploy the application into WinXP, all things work fine, but when I test in Windows 7, when I install the application, it raised error u201C...Business Objects\bin\objectfactory.dll, unable to register the dll/ocx: Regsrv32 failed with exit code 0x3.u201D, also including other dlls: prompt.dll, saxserialize.dll, crlov.dll, crqe.dll, crtslv.dll, datadefmodel.dll, exportmodeller.dll.
However, when I try to install CR XI developer edition into the win 7 environment, the error is disappear when installing my application again. I'm wondering if some other CR XI runtimie files must be included into my setup package file.
Ps: I didn't use the merge module to create the setup package, we don't have the installshield, and also the merge module size is a little big.
Please help, thanks.

Answer 1

Hello,
First we have never test CR XI on windows 7 and because CR XI is out of support life cycle we won't be.
Second, we don't have any info on how to distribute our runtime files without using the Merge Modules. You are obviously missing some runtime dependencies by not using the merge modules so either enable logging and manually create all of our registry keys and permissions as well as any third party dll's we require.
It may help if you download Orca from Microsoft's site and open the MSM's and see what we are doing and then attempt to duplicate what they are doing in your distribution routines.
When installing CR you can also enable logging and see what CR is installing.
CR 2008 has a smaller foot print but if you are using the RDC or VCL in your Delphi app then it won't work for you unless you upgrade to the .NET plug-in for Delphi. There latest version supports .NET
Good luck
Don