Can't figure out how to register dll to avoid "Can't get object clsid from progid"

java autoit jacob
user3476534 picture user3476534 · Nov 25, 2015 · Viewed 8.4k times · Source

I am trying to use autoit with java, and have installed AHK and the jacob bridge to autoitx4java.AutoItx. I have the jacob dll (jacob-1.18-86x.dll) stored in windows/syswow64 . When I try to compile the program (imports are import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; import autoitx4java.AutoItX;), I get an error 

Exception in thread "main" com.jacob.com.ComFailException: Can't get object clsid from progid
at com.jacob.com.Dispatch.createInstanceNative(Native Method)
at com.jacob.com.Dispatch.<init>(Dispatch.java:99)
at com.jacob.activeX.ActiveXComponent.<init>(ActiveXComponent.java:58)
at autoitx4java.AutoItX.<init>(AutoItX.java:181)
at MainTest.login(MainTest.java:126)
at MainTest.setadmin(MainTest.java:181)
at MainTest.runbasic(MainTest.java:21)
at MainTest.main(MainTest.java:15)

After searching, I thought it might be that the dll wasn't registered, such as at How to create an object using JACOB , but that didn't work. After typing the registering command from there, I get a "RegAsm : error RA0000 : Failed to load 'c:\windows\syswow64\jacob-1.18-x86.dll' because it is not a vaild .NET assembly. Also tried "regsvr32 jacob-1.18-x86.dll" from another way to register outside of the answer above, but that got me a "The module "jacob-1.18-x86.dll" was loaded but the entry-point DllRegisterServer was not found. Make sure that "jacob-1.18-x86.dll" is a valid DLL or OCX file and try again. Any ideas?

Edit: Someone suggested this was for AutoIt and not autohotkey. This is corrected in the question and the tags. Thanks,

Answer

Anant Trigune picture Anant Trigune · Jun 15, 2017

By just registering only AutoITX3 DLL, issue has been resolved. For Win32: AutoItX3.dll and Win64: AutoItX3_x64.dll

Register using command: regsvr32 AbsolutePathOfRequiredDLLFile

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