I am currently doing a new installation of Tridion 2011. We previously used 5.3 and save the database. So far I have installed a database, a content manager, two content delivery servers, and now I am working on setting up presentation servers. All our web pages are built using classic asp. I was advised to manually install the API (bind, broker, and WAI) if I wanted my asp pages to use dynamic linking (see https://stackoverflow.com/a/1277575/ ... )
I read the documentation and explains how to install the API as a .NET web service. I don't think this is what I want, since my web pages are all classic asp. I assume that I need to do something with exe files in the directory Content Delivery\roles\api\windows, but they do nothing at startup.
When running the following code on my asp page
Server.CreateObject("cd_link.ComponentLink")
I get an error
Server object error 'ASP 0177: 800401f3'
Server.CreateObject Error
/about/index.asp line 196
800401f3
... but this will obviously happen, since I don't have a linker installed
Additional Information
The server is 64-bit Windows Server 2008. Starting IIS 7.5, but my application pool for Tridion 2011 runs in 32-bit mode.
Creating other third-party objects works fine. Like the Chilkath Crypt library.