Cannot locate Visual Foxpro Support library VFP 9.0

[randallJ]

Hi

I have just upgraded to VFP 9.0. I am using Installshield Express 5.0 to create a single image exe to distribute my program. Under redistributables I have selected M VFP 9.0 runtime libraries and M VFP HTML help support library. When I install my program on a PC I get the error message
Cannot locate Visual Foxpro Support library VFP 9.0. I am doing exactly what I did with VFP 8.0 Installshield express 3.5. What has changed? Do I need to do something else.

 

[GriffMG]

Hello RandallJ

I have been using SG Pro to install VFP 9... beside my .exe file I am copying the following files to the target machines:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VFP\vfp9r.dll
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VFP\VFP9RENU.DLL
C:\WINNT\system32\msvcr71.dll
C:\WINNT\system32\GdiPlus.dll

None of them seem to need to be registered and they all end up in the WINSYS folder according to SG Pro which in practice means the c:\winnt\system32 folder (or similar)

This works well for me - except on Win 95 machines, where vfp9 is somewhat unwellcome!

Regards

Griff
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[randallJ]

Thanks Griff for your speedy reply, however all 4 files that you have listed are present in the those directories.

 

[GriffMG]

Hi RandallJ!

They ALL need to go into the target machines system32 folder (although they MIGHT work in the same folder as the .exe is installed).

Regards

Griff
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[randallJ]

I manually added them to the system32 directory and this still didn;t work. I then tried to included them in unders files in Installshield and it told me that these files are already included in the merge modules.

 

[GriffMG]

Sorry then - I'm not able to help, mine are working fine doing a simple copy to the the system32 folder...

Have you 'googled' for vfp runtime support?

Regards

Griff
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[randallJ]

No will try that now. I also loaded Installshield 3.5 and used that with VFP 9.0 and it works fine - so there is definately something specific about Installshield 5.0.