CoCreateInstance now fails on msxml4.dll

Bill Medland billmedland at mercuryspeed.com
Fri Oct 15 15:59:54 CDT 2004


On October 15, 2004 12:59 pm, Bill Medland wrote:
> Any ideas on this?

Probably using a Windows 98 ole32.dll in a Windows NT environment

>
> (The problem has become apparent since 20040914 but was probably lurking
> before)
>
> Working with a current Wine environment (as of yesterday); fresh .wine
> created and the DllOverride added to call native ole32
>
> If you run regsvr32 /s msxml4.dll it registers itself as at
> %SystemRoot%\system\msxml4.dll
> (As of 20040914 it would register itself as at
> c:\windows\system\msxml4.dll)
>
> If you try to CoCreateInstance (... a class in msxml4.dll e.g.
> SAXXMLReader40...) then it now fails.
> (It succeeds under the builtin ole32)
>
> I have run a +relay trace.
> Between the call to RegQueryKey that gets the path, complete with
> %SystemRoot%, and the call to LoadLibraryEx (called with %SystemRoot%)
> there is no apparent attempt to call a function to expand the string (and
> in particular it does not call ExpandEnvironmentString)
> I've even looked at all the calls between the start of the CoCreateInstance
> and the LoadLibrary and I don't see anything obviously problematic
> I will look at the full trace but I'm not hopefull of spotting what earlier
> call resulted in ole32 not trying to expand the string.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to investigate further?

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