>Hi,
> How to minimise the setup disk size ? What file are not necessary and which is necessary for setup?
>
It depends on your application. At a minimum, the executable file must be included; you'll also need the VFP runtime components if VFP is not already installed. If your program doesn't create any of its data files programmatically, then you need to include template DBFs. If you've excluded any reports/forms/class libraries from the project, they have to go out. Any ActiveX components and their support files have to be installed. As a simple example, if you've made use of various Windows Scripting Host components, you'd best make certaint hat the WSH is installed on the target system. If you haven't used anything from WSH, then there's no need for it.
IOW, your application and any files needed by your application, plus the runtime files, and a setup process to properly install everything, are the minimum set of files needed. It's impossible to know what your program needs are without a detailed knowledge of what the application requires.
If it's a matter of which files are needed to put the runtime in place, VFP6R.DEP outlines the set of files required for the runtime, and describes their dependencies. the needed files are automatically included in a Setup Wizard distribution disk set if you tell VFP's Setup Wizard to include the runtime components. My usual caveat - it is not an adequate install of the runtime to simply copy these files in place on the target system; some of the files must be registered, and there are additional registry entries that need to be created. There's an entry in the FAQ that summarizes the base set of files needed by VFP6, and tells you which of those must be registered, but it doesn't properly document all the file dependencies involved; the .DEP file does provide the additional information.
If you're installing to Win95, you need to make certain that DCOM is installed properly, there's a FAQ entry that tells you how to test for DCOM installation, and what to do if DCOM is not installed depending on what platform you're dealing with.
