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Installing dll files in windows xp
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From
12/04/2002 08:37:24
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
To
12/04/2002 08:32:24
Brian O'Donovan
Crescent Computers
Cork, Ireland
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Installation, Setup and Configuration
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00644166
Message ID:
00644196
Views:
15
>Hi Hilmar,
>
>your suggestion of copying the dll files to the executable
>directory worked. I am only kicking myself for not thinking of this
>option in the first place
>
>Hope you have a good day
>
>Brian O Donovan

Yes, well, I did this in the beginning here in Bata-Bolivia; copying files into the EXE folder on the network machine. It seems to me that Ed's warning about trashing the target system applies mainly to the case where you copy directly to WINDOWS\SYSTEM or WINDOWS. The main problem I had, eventually, was more and more folders with executables - each requiring its own set of DLLs (about 4 MB in each case). Therefore, I created a small installation program (with the Setup Wizard, in VFP 6), to handle the technical details of selecting, copying, registering, etc., the correct DLLs (and other files, like ActiveX controls) to the user machine.

Hilmar.
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