>>What are you trying to accomplish by creating a protable DLL file?
>I am trying to Setup User Functions that I can use in Crystal Reports
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>But are you saying that I can can just make function calls in VFP Procedures that use SPT to call the Oracle packages/procedure/functions and return the result. Then make Compile it into a COM Object?
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>I am just trying to make sure that I am understanding the concept.

Yes. You can do searches for messages from me or Mark Mccasland for examples of calling Oracle stored procedures/functions from VFP using SPT. You could also simply issue SQL statements to Oracle and return result sets to VFP using SPT. Turn these result sets into DBFs and Crystal Reports can read these natively.

All the above functionality could be turned into a VFP COM server with very little effort.

HTH.