[gme-users] Compiling issues (pt 2)

[Kevin Smyth]

For problems like these, I would use Process Monitor to try to see what
is failing.

 

Here's my guess:

GME depends on quite a few ActiveX dlls, which you wouldn't see in
Dependency Walker. GME uses the standard CoCreateInstance method to
create these, which depends on HKCR COM registration data. This
registration data is created by GME.sln (and MetaGME.sln et al) by
running regsvr32 on the various COM dlls. The registration data is
created by GME.msi for installed versions. If you didn't install GME.msi
on your VM, the VM would not have the registration data.

 

Instead of zipping up anything, I'd use the Install\Build\build.py build
script to build a GME.msi and install that. (You'll need to install
Python 2.6 or 2.7 and WiX 3.5.) That will create all the COM
registration data you'll need (and also compile other required
components, like the MetaInterpreter and MetaDecorator). The msi also
provides uninstall.

 

If using the msi doesn't help, let me know and I can list some debugging
breakpoints.

 

 

Also note GME will silently exit on Windows Server Core.

 

Kevin

 

From: gme-users-bounces at list.isis.vanderbilt.edu
[mailto:gme-users-bounces at list.isis.vanderbilt.edu] On Behalf Of Andrew
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Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 7:07 PM
To: gme-users
Subject: [gme-users] Compiling issues (pt 2)

 

I am running into a bit of a roadblock which I'm having difficulty
debugging. Apologies in advance for soliciting help with such a vague
description of the problem, but the reason the description of the
problem is so vague is the same reason I'm having difficulty finding a
solution.

I added a few elements to the IDR_MAINFRAME resource file and compiled
successfully, ran the executable on my local machine and zipped it up to
send out for QA. I got a message saying that the binary, when double
clicked, did nothing. I fired up a brand new VM and saw the same error
happen. I double click the exe,see the hour glass for about 1/4th a
second,then nothing happens. I don't even know how/where to start
debugging it. I threw the bin into IDA to see if it could make heads or
tails out of it and it couldn't either. I tried Dependency Walker too to
no avail. Out of curiosity, I tried building a GME build fresh out of
the source zip file of 12.4.20 -- same problem. This is all being done
in elevated mode with the Release configuration.

I'm guessing this is a compiler flag issue or something or perhaps
something is not being (statically?) linked properly. But I've no idea
as how to debug this issue, and less of an idea as how to fix it.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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