AutoIt3 vs AutoIt2 executables in a limited enviroment

[jobobbo]

Hey all,

I've got an unattended Windows XP install disc i've been working on. One of the last things that still annoy me about it is the mid-point windows setup "wizard" where you set up networking, etc. I created a nice GUI in AutoIt v3 (3.2.5.1) to allow the user to select all of those options when just starting out (still in interactive mode, right after the text-setup portion), but when I try to run it from my "presetup.cmd" batch file it doesn't run and gives me the error message "The system cannot execute the specified program." with error code 9020.

Next, I tried a very simple one line script (just a MsgBox() command), and recieved the same error

Next I tried making another simple and another complex script in AutoIt2 and both ran as expected in the limited pre-windows-setup enviroment

I found very few references to this error:

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/lofivers....php?t8065.html

And here (my specific problem):

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...mp;#entry263608

Does anyone know the differences between the two AutoIt versions that would cause v2 to work and v3 to not. I was thinking it may be a dll problem also, like here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/articles/427101.aspx

I used dependency walker on both simple scripts and came up with these results:

* testv2.exe:

kernel32.dll

advapi32.dll

comdlg32.dll

gdi32.dll

shell32.dll

user32.dll

* testv3.exe:

kernel32.dll

advapi32.dll

comctl32.dll

comdlg32.dll

gdi32.dll

mpr32.dll

ole32.dll

oleaut32.dll

shell32.dll

user32.dll

version.dll

winmm.dll

wsock32.dll

Obviously, there a few more dependency dlls to the version 3 script. Is there some way I can load them? The easy way to get around my whole problem is to just use AutoIt2, but I really need the GUI functions from AutoIt3.

Thanks,

oo

[lod3n]

3.2.4.9 is the latest release version, 3.2.5.1 is the latest beta version. Have you tried the same thing in 3.2.4.9 release?

Another problem is that the GUI subsystem might be different in a PE environment. Are you using WinPE or BartPE?

[jobobbo]

Yes, I know 3.2.5.1 is (latest) beta. I have also tried the stable 3.2.4.9 as well as numerous other previous versions of AutoIt3. I am not using a PE environment, but I saw a post wherein someone had the same sort of trouble. My environment is during (actually, right before) windows setup executable is run ("setup.exe" from the cabbed "setup.ex_" in the I386 folder). I tried another program without ANY GUI subsystem whatsoever (assign a variable and exit) and it still has the same error as before, leading me to believe that even the simplest AutoIt3 program requires a DLL that isn't initialized/present at runtime.

[lod3n]

This is most likely a developer question. Try posting this in AutoIt Feature Requests (but not Bug Reports, as AutoIt is not designed with a PE environment in mind.)

[SmOke_N]

leading me to believe that even the simplest AutoIt3 program requires a DLL that isn't initialized/present at runtime.

Seeing as the script is a windows based interpreted language, that makes perfect sense to me.