How to make a custom rom using Helmi's AKU 3.3 ROM Kitchen

[finster869]

Guys, I am taking my first shot at making an OEM (PPC Geeks Piscel pdf viewer). I used WIN cabmanager and exported the registry and files from the cab. My question is: How do you create the shortcut file? I have the initflashfiles.txt file figured out based upon other OEMs, but can't figure out how to create the shortcut file.

Do I just create a text file with:

25#"picselifv.exe"

[finster869]

I am having trouble getting the OSexe to run with my first attempt at an OEM. I am getting this error:

InitRegistry FAILED in file ".\Registry\d8e773b0-b187-11db-abbd-0800200c9a66.rgu" within a few lines of line 1.
ImportFromPackageListStrict: (RGUComp) !ERROR failed importing ".\Registry\d8e773b0-b187-11db-abbd-0800200c9a66.rgu"
wmain: (RGUComp) !ERROR failed building DEFAULT hives

That is clearly the OEM I am creating. I exported the registry from the cab using cab manager and saved it as xxxxxxxx.rgu. I added a blank line at the end. The rgu file looks like:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ifvfile]
@="Picsel Viewer"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ifvfile\Shell\Open\Command]
@="\"\\Windows\\picselifv.exe\" \"%1\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ifvfile\DefaultIcon]
@="\\Windows\\picselifv.exe,0"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Picsel Technologies Ltd\Picsel File Viewer]
"Command"="\"\\Windows\\picselifv.exe\" \"%1\""
"DefaultIcon"="\\Windows\\picselifv.exe,0"
"LinkFilename"="Picsel Viewer"
"history"="\\Program Files\\Picsel\\File Viewer\\history\\hist"
"help"="\\Program Files\\Picsel\\File Viewer\\help\\^\\app.html"
"MemLeftAside"="2097152"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Picsel Technologies Ltd\Picsel File Viewer\eDR]
"page.on.demand"="1"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Picsel Technologies Ltd\Picsel File Viewer\Paths]
"Windows"="\\Windows\\"
"Cookies"="\\Program Files\\Picsel\\File Viewer\\history\\"
"Resource"="\\Windows\\"
"ResourceImage"="\\Windows\\"
"Libs"="\\Windows\\"
"Img"="\\Windows\\"
"Fonts_Bincmaps"="\\Windows\\"
"Fonts"="\\Windows\\"
"Help"="\\Program Files\\Picsel\\File Viewer\\Help\\"
"All"="\\Windows\\"

Can someone help me with this? Thanks.

[colonel]

A shortcut is a text file 25#"\Windows\picselifv.exe" saved as a Piscel PDF or whatever you want to name it. Then make a flash file entry.

I cannot tell about the registry since the site formats differently. Each [HKEY....] should be all the way to the left. Each line under that entry should be 2 spaces over. Save as Unicode.

[finster869]

Colonel:

I still can't figure it out. Here is what I did:

1. Open cab file in Cab Manager
2. Highlight Registry and export to .reg file
3. Open .reg file with Textpad
4. move second lines over 2 spaces keeping Hkeys all the way to the left.
5. Save as Unicode PC Text file. (should it be unix or something else?)

[pgdeaner]

While working on AKU3.5, I have also been playing aroung with UPX. It seems like you can really shrink the image but then some things do not want to work.

Anyone have any experience with UPX that can outline what can be UPXed and what should not?

[colonel]

finster, is there only one blank line in between each line? One thing you can do is download WideAwake's tools since they are useful as well. In those tools is a file called HV Tools. Put your saved text file in there and name it either default.txt or user.txt. Then run the appropriate make_default_hv etc. This is a quick way to test your files to see if they will parse. And, the error message you see will tell you where the issue is. If it completes with no error, then you may have an issue somewhere else.

[finster869]

Colonel- Thanks for all of the help. I got it to work. User error with software....I had a setting messed up in Textpad....switched to notepad, and it worked no problem. Can't wait until the ftp server is working so we can have a large OEM library!