Install Shield Express 4 help ASAP Please

[jester4281]

I have been working on this for the last 3 days. I need to know what Redistributals I need for my foxpro app, not worrying about anything else just what is required to run the Foxpro. I am having issues with it and I needed this done yesterday. Program runs fine, just cant get the install created. Please help ?

 

[jester4281]

P.S. Foxpro 8

 

[davidr50]

All you need under objects is:

GDI Plus Redust module

Microsoft Visual C++ 7.0 Runtime

Microsoft Visual FoxPro 8 Runtime Libraries

These 3 are all you need.

Dave

 

[CouponPages]

Technically, it depends on the type of application, but for most people by checking off just the VFP runtime libraries gets the job done. It automatically also selects things like the core MS libraries.

For what it's worth, I hate using Installshield for my applications, so I stopped using it entirely. It's always bugged me that because we write programs in VFP, we have these huge installer files. In other langauges, they have tiny installers and they just assume you have the runtimes installed.

What I've done instead is create a simple "Hello World" application in VFP, then I created an Installer for that simple program. The end product is a small Runtime installer with a built in test.

Once a client has installed the dummy program, the test program verifies that the installation worked.

From that point on, any VFP programs can simply be copied over or installed with a simple batch file. Or, if you like to use InstallShield, you can create installations for your applications that are much smaller, because the runtime is separate.

 

[twrobel]

Here is a quick list from a recent project:
Microsoft C runtime
Microsoft C++ rintimelib (both libraries
Microsoft Component Category Manager
Microsoft OLE 2.40
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime (Both)
Microsoft Visual Foxpro 7 Runtime Libs
Microsoft Visual Foxpro HTML help support

 

[wgcs]

Some reason, for me, picking the VFP8 runtime doesn't auto-select the "Microsoft Visual C++ 7.0 Runtime"...

it has something to do with, I think, that when I click the VFP8 Runtime, the dependencies it lists includes: "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime 7.0", which it doesn't find among the merge modules since the merge module is called "Microsoft Visual C++ 7.0 Runtime"

Anyway, look at the dependencies listed in installshield when you click on the runtime mergemodule (or any other merge module you're using) and make sure your setup includes them.