Installshield 6 crash: ole trouble

[Marcus Meissner]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:12:29PM -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Dan Kegel wrote:
> >Bobby Bingham wrote:
> >
> >>IIRC, InstallShield 6 can work if you copy stdole32.tlb from a real 
> >>windows to wine's system directory.  

I will add a large message suggesting that.

> >Yep, copying just that one file made things get a lot further!
> >After futzing around for half an hour, I finally convinced our
> >app to install.  There appear to be a lot of rough edges
> >here; I had to turn on ole logging and run just the extracted
> >setup.exe (not the package-for-the-web wrapper) to get
> >things to work
> 
> It looks like there's a Heisenbug here.  If I run without
> logging, I get a window titled "Unhandled Exception",
> with contents
> "Error Number: 0x80040706
> Description: Object reference not set
> Setup will now terminate."

I have seen this on and off, but I thought I fixed it.

Ciao, Marcus