Cannot Locate the Microsoft Visual FoxPro Support LIbrary

[Desmond Lloyd]

Good Morning,

Have several legacy VFP6 applications my users run. A mixed bag of VFP6
and VFP9 generated executables.

The main application everyone can run, have another executable in a folder
under the main application, most people can run. Now have a new person who
cannot run the one in the sub folder, he can run the main!

Checked the folder where the other application runs and have located vfp6
and vfp7 dll's, including the respective versions of the "renu" dll's in
the same folder. The shortcut starts the correct exe and starts where the
dll's are located? It "should" run.

Does anyone see anything blatantly wrong?

Regards,
Desmond


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[Peter Cushing]

Do you have an installer to do all the copying/registering etc?
I think you have to have some files installed on the machine even to use
the runtime.

What error (if any) do you get?


Peter Cushing
IT Department
WHISPERING SMITH

Post by Desmond Lloyd
Good Morning,
Have several legacy VFP6 applications my users run. A mixed bag of VFP6
and VFP9 generated executables.
The main application everyone can run, have another executable in a folder
under the main application, most people can run. Now have a new person who
cannot run the one in the sub folder, he can run the main!
Checked the folder where the other application runs and have located vfp6
and vfp7 dll's, including the respective versions of the "renu" dll's in
the same folder. The shortcut starts the correct exe and starts where the
dll's are located? It "should" run.
Does anyone see anything blatantly wrong?
Regards,
Desmond
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[Ken Dibble]

Post by Peter Cushing
Do you have an installer to do all the copying/registering etc?
I think you have to have some files installed on the machine even to
use the runtime.

There's a C++ dll that is required in addition to the runtime, and I
think one other file, at a minimum. If all of the required files are
located in the same folder as the .exe you want to run, it will run,
no "installation" or registration necessary.

It's possible that the other machines have a PATH environmental
variable set that the problem machine doesn't.

Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org


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[Desmond Lloyd]

Thank you for the quick response... Yes I have installers for both VFP6
and VFP9 (thank you Woodie) Turns out I needed to install the VFP9
runtimes, right as rain! As an aside, I have yet another "report shell"
application that was running just fine prior to installing the runtimes.
Go figure...

Thanks again,
Desmond

Post by Peter Cushing
Do you have an installer to do all the copying/registering etc?

Post by Peter Cushing
I think you have to have some files installed on the machine even to use
the runtime.

There's a C++ dll that is required in addition to the runtime, and I think
one other file, at a minimum. If all of the required files are located in
the same folder as the .exe you want to run, it will run, no "installation"
or registration necessary.
It's possible that the other machines have a PATH environmental variable
set that the problem machine doesn't.
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org

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[Tracy Pearson]

Post by Desmond Lloyd
Thank you for the quick response... Yes I have installers for both VFP6
and VFP9 (thank you Woodie) Turns out I needed to install the VFP9
runtimes, right as rain! As an aside, I have yet another "report shell"
application that was running just fine prior to installing the runtimes.
Go figure...
Thanks again,
Desmond

Desmond,

I wrote a CMD file to search and display the versions of all the VFP9
runtime DLLS.
We used to use it frequently with customers.
Here is a link to the file, it doesn't paste well due to line wrapping.

http://powerchurchsoftware.com/support/versions.cmd

On the fifth line, you can adjust the vfp9*.dll to just vfp*.dll to get all
runtimes.

A quick explanation of the inner workings is:
It creates a VBS file, then the FOR loop searches the drive and runs the VBS
file for each file matching found.
The VBS file echoes the filename, location, and version to the command
window
Then the VBS file is removed.
Then the window pauses, allowing one to just dbl-click the CMD file.

Tracy Pearson
PowerChurch Software


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