EA and PVCS

[mikegill]

We are trying to set up EA with PVCS and are getting 'Error while initializing Version Control provider'.

We have PVCS version manager 7.51 and have followed the instructions in the white paper on the EA site for version control and tested adding files to PVCS outside of EA. This seems to work fine.

We are very light on PVCS knowledge and we have set up a vcs.cfg file in the workfile directory, but still no luck.

Any ideas would be appreciated, specifically if there is something we need to do in addition either on the client or server end for PVCS, or if EA is expecting anything else to be there.

[mhyde]

Hi,
I'm having the same problem at the moment. Did you manage to find a solution?

[mikegill]

Hi mhyde,
Don't have the final solution at the moment but have had some information from PVCS support which you might like to try. Basically we have got it working on some machines that have had PVCS on them for 2 or so years, but not on new installations, despite doing a full install. PVCS have suggested that some dlls are not registered correctly so they suggest that the following dlls are registered:

regsvr32 ActivityMonitor.dll
regsvr32 compcli.dll
regsvr32 COMSession.dll
regsvr32 DialogIntegration.dll
regsvr32 IFC_COM.dll
regsvr32 IFC_GUI.dll
regsvr32 IFC_SCC.dll
regsvr32 IFC_Services.dll
regsvr32 PvcsVmVCP.dll
regsvr32 SccSession.dll
pclioutproc.exe /regserver
ActivityMonitorEXE.exe /register

(The above can be copied into a batch file and run).

When I did it compcli.dll and pvcsvmvcp.dll failed to register, however they did on one of the working machines.

This makes me suspect that the above dlls are missing other items (dlls?) and can't load properly. I am trying to get PVCS support to understand this and tell me if these 2 dlls require anything else to register. I will keep you posted.

Meanwhile if you could try registering them then maybe you might have more luck.

Cheers


Mike Gill