topic Re: Error when building object with DCOM Connector in Application Development and Automation Discussions https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/error-when-building-object-with-dcom-connector/m-p/1130626#M111583 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Obviously my question did not get to much interest. Luckily I found out the answer myself.</P><P></P><P>The message from the component builder results from this registry key beeing empty. For some reason the SAP GUI installation routine did not fill it out. I then found that by inserting whatever value into that key, the compilation started and hung with another error (file mkenv.inc not found). After surching for that file I found it was installed in C:\Programme\SAP\FrontEnd\SAPgui\rfcsdk\include</P><P></P><P>So, bingo, the empty registry value "software\sap\mts\proxygenerator\additionalincludedirs" must be filled "C:\Programme\SAP\FrontEnd\SAPgui\rfcsdk\include" or what corresponds to your installation and it works. At least the component dll was built, I have to test now if it is running correctly...</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:03:53 GMT Former Member 2006-01-12T10:03:53Z Error when building object with DCOM Connector https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/error-when-building-object-with-dcom-connector/m-p/1130625#M111582 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello everybody,</P><P></P><P>I'm new to SAP programming so please forgive my ignorance...</P><P></P><P>We are trying to build a com object to call some RFC-functions from a VB 6 application. We use DCOM Connector V6.2, I have MS Visual C++ 6.0 installed, unfortunately I don't know the R/3 version of our client.</P><P></P><P>Every time I click the button "Build Component DLL", the following message appears: "cannot read value of registry entry software\sap\mts\proxygenerator\additionalincludedirs"</P><P></P><P>This registry entry exists, so I don't know, whats wrong. I run DCOM Connector on Win XP, IE 6. I also tried on a Windows 2000 system, with the same error message.</P><P></P><P>I hope you can help me, I searched a long time on the forums and didn't find anything.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 06 Jan 2006 14:35:30 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/error-when-building-object-with-dcom-connector/m-p/1130625#M111582 Former Member 2006-01-06T14:35:30Z Re: Error when building object with DCOM Connector https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/error-when-building-object-with-dcom-connector/m-p/1130626#M111583 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Obviously my question did not get to much interest. Luckily I found out the answer myself.</P><P></P><P>The message from the component builder results from this registry key beeing empty. For some reason the SAP GUI installation routine did not fill it out. I then found that by inserting whatever value into that key, the compilation started and hung with another error (file mkenv.inc not found). After surching for that file I found it was installed in C:\Programme\SAP\FrontEnd\SAPgui\rfcsdk\include</P><P></P><P>So, bingo, the empty registry value "software\sap\mts\proxygenerator\additionalincludedirs" must be filled "C:\Programme\SAP\FrontEnd\SAPgui\rfcsdk\include" or what corresponds to your installation and it works. At least the component dll was built, I have to test now if it is running correctly...</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:03:53 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/error-when-building-object-with-dcom-connector/m-p/1130626#M111583 Former Member 2006-01-12T10:03:53Z