Installing .NET managed dll's into the GAC

[helix400]

I'm about a month or two away from deploying .net managed dll's into customers GAC's, so I looked into what it would take to do it right.

So far, I'm a bit confuse how this would be done. I did find this:

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Register...DLL_in_the_GAC

But it mentions that if the user doesn't have the SDK installed, then gacutil probably won't exist on the users machine (the 2.0 version of GACUtil only exists on my machine because of Visual Studio). That makes the solution worthless.

It also mentioned that instead of using NSIS to deploy the .NET dll, you use some C# app to do it for you. But that has issus with Windows Vista users who don't have admin access (and I'd assume any non-admin user).

Another thread (http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....&highlight=gac), talked about this too, and it seemed a solution was to package gacutil with the install. But, then
mayevski chimed in and said you're not allowed to do that.

So I'm just stuck and asking for help. Are there any clean methods for installing a .NET dll into the GAC?