What files to include with application?

[Mrall]

I have design an application that I want to distribute to clients. I have a main directory with path set to

PROGS; MENUS; DATA; FORMS; REPORTS

After athe application is built, to an .exe, what files have to be included with the .exe to allow the application to run? I don't want to include the source .prg or the form files.

I haven't seen much written about needs to be included with an application.

Thanks

 

[Olaf Doschke]

Mainly the EXE and runtimes. Which runtimes depends on your VFP Version, which runtime DLLs. See

http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VFP9RuntimeFiles

replace 9 with 6 if it's about VFP6. And forget about stuff only relevant for version 9, like gdiplus and report*.apps

Bye, Olaf.

 

[TamarGranor]

Depending how your application is written, you may also need to distribute some data files, either empty copies of all the data or just those data files that start out with data in them, such as look-up tables.

Tamar

 

[Olaf Doschke]

True, so you most probably want to include your Data folder in a setup. And perhaps you also left your reports excluded from the exe and want to deploy them too, eg to change them programmatically. If you used ActiveX controls you also need to deplay OCX/DLL files and perhaps register them.

Bye, Olaf.