Using Exe on server

[ShortyII]

Hi,

I think its a simple question but i can't find the answer.
Ik have made a program in fox 8 and turnt it into a exe file.
Now i wan't people to use the program. But i get errors of missing dll's.


In fox 2.6 you have to have the FOXW2600.ESL in the WINDOWS dir and the Foxtools.fll, FOXUSER.DBF in the EXE dir.

Wath files do i need to have for fox8 and in witch dir ?????

Thanx for the response

 

[Mike Gagnon]

ShortyII

My suggestion would be to create an installation disk with InstallShield and install your application, that way all the required files will be installed in the right place, and registered appopriately.

http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VFP8RuntimeFiles

Make sure you register the DLLs that require registration.

Mike Gagnon

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[Mike Gagnon]

ShortyII

As an after thought, depending how your users access the server (mapping, remote desktop, Citrix Metaframe, PCAnywhere etc) it will most likely be required that all users computer have the runtime files on their system as well.

Mike Gagnon

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[ShortyII]

They have disk access and throug shortcuts they start the exe files on the server.
So i have to run the installer on all computers.
Because the website you gave me didn't recomend to register it by hand yourselve.
Ore do you register the files your selve

 

[ShortyII]

Hi is used the FoxPro Install shield but i get the following error "Could not locate the microsoft visual foxpro support library" What am i doing wrong ?????
Or wich file do i miss

 

[Mike Gagnon]

ShortyII

If you use the InstallShield, it will register the ones that need to be registered, which is the way I normally do things, by hand I'm not sure, but you may want to read this faq (faq184-2644) based on a statement from Dr. Ed Raugh that describes what happens when you just copy runtime files.

Mike Gagnon

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[ShortyII]

Hi is used the FoxPro Install shield but i get the following error "Could not locate the microsoft visual foxpro support library" What am i doing wrong ?????
Or wich file do i miss any solution

 

[rob444]

Just create an install exe for the runtimes only, that can be used on any machine regardless of the application.
At least...that's what I've done.

Rob.

 

[ShortyII]

GREAT THANX FOR THE EXCELENT HELP
IT WORKS

 

[Mike Gagnon]

ShortyII

Did you reboot? A library the gets registered requires a re-boot.

Mike Gagnon

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[ShortyII]

Yes on 2 computers it worked fine but the rest gave some errors. Also i made only a runtime install so i don't have to make a install every time.

 

[Mike Gagnon]

ShortyII

Then I would suggest you go to the computer in question, and manually register the dlls with regsvr32.


Mike Gagnon

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[kenndot]

just for future reference in case anyone needs it... here's a straighforward list of the dll's you need. we do the same thing, just distribute the exe's and doing it that way, we just make sure that the following dlls are in the program directory


gdiplus.dll
msvcr70.dll
vfp8r.dll
vfp8renu.dll
vfp8t.dll