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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Installation, Setup and Configuration
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00547403
Message ID:
00547487
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>>Most likely you want to create an EXE.
>>
>>If your friends don't have VFP, you will need to create a setup for them to install the VFP runtime files besides your application. If you are using VFP6, what you can do is:
>>
>>1. Create a temporary directory
>>2. Copy there all files that you want to distribute with your application (EXE, DBFS, others)
>>3. Launch VFP
>>4. clear all, close all
>>5. Run the setup wizard and tell it that your files are in the temporary directory that you created in step 1.
>>
>>>Hi UTers,
>>>
>>>I'm confused. I have a small project that runs fine. I want to distribute it to a couple of friends without them seeing the source code. They do not have vfp on their computers. Do I build an .app file or win32 executable/com server(exe) and why. Which one of these to I place in my apllication directory for setup to work on?
>>>
>>>Neil
>
>Hi Hector,
>

>But to I create an APP or exe?
An EXE.
Hector Correa
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