Regarding using an third party DLL with different SID

[vishalm]

Hi All.
We are using an third party dll in our application in our application for specific purpose. We dont have any control over the DLL .
But that dll is having a different SID than the application UID.
So while submitting an application for Symbian Signing, it is showing result as "False" and message as "Please check the UID in SIS and .pkg"

If i remove the DLL from project it was uploaded without any error.

Will any body have any solution over this.
Thanks in advance.

[stichbury]

What is the UID3 or SID of the DLL you're signing? You can find this out using the petran tool.

Does the value fall into a different range of values than the UID3/SID of the rest of the code you're signing? I would suspect that this is the case rather than that the error is occuring simply because it's a different, since this shouldn't be a problem for DLLs.

One solution would be to ask the originator of the DLL to provide you with a signed installation file, so you can install it separately by embedding it.

[ltomuta]

The SID has no value for a DLL and it should not be declared in the MMP file (or it should be set to 0x00000000). The DLL code runs within the loading process' platform security context and the only relevant SID belongs to the process.

Ask your DLL provider to make the appropriate corrections.

[stichbury]

True. Secure ID keywords are not to be used for DLLs, and, IIRC, the general advice from Symbian is not to use them anyway, but to use the UID3 value.

A polymorphic DLL will need to have a UID3 value which must be unique, I think. If this is specified in the wrong range, this is what needs to be corrected.