Are you sure you have not accidently excluded the class libary from the project before creating the EXE?

Are you using Mere Mortal abstract factory to instantiate the object?

>I've compiled a project into a standalone EXE and installed everything it needs onto a different machine. When running the EXE, I get the following:
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>"Error instantiating class. Cannot find c:\vpetradev\libs\abizness.vcx"
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>Why would a compiled exe still be looking for source code in the original development directory? Any ideas why a standalone EXE needs to access the source code in order to function?
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>FWIW, a previous version of this system using local VFP tables didn't exhibit this problem, but it is now switched to remote views accessing a SQL 7 backend. Just in case that's worth anything.
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>TIA