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Rory · Jan 28th, 2005, 6:13 PM

Actually, regsvr32 only works on self-registering COM components (i.e. ActiveX) that conform to the __stdcall. It won't help - DLL's do not need to be "registered" as such. Regsvr32 doesn't actually do anything special anyway, it's just a special case of rundll32 - it looks for a entry point called DLLRegisterServer, making the DLL responsible for registering itself in the COM registry.

Error 53 means that VB can't find the file specified by Lib, for which regsvr32 is no help - An error such as "ActiveX Component can't create object" would be the sort of thing caused by a registration issue that regsvr32 could solve.

Jan 28th, 2005, 6:13 PM	#7
Rory Expert Programmer Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: London Posts: 542 Rep Power: 4	Actually, regsvr32 only works on self-registering COM components (i.e. ActiveX) that conform to the __stdcall. It won't help - DLL's do not need to be "registered" as such. Regsvr32 doesn't actually do anything special anyway, it's just a special case of rundll32 - it looks for a entry point called DLLRegisterServer, making the DLL responsible for registering itself in the COM registry. Error 53 means that VB can't find the file specified by Lib, for which regsvr32 is no help - An error such as "ActiveX Component can't create object" would be the sort of thing caused by a registration issue that regsvr32 could solve.