Visual Basic, Stand Alone EXE ?

Stand Alone EXE ?

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Joe Hochstuh #1 / 5	Stand Alone EXE ? At the risk of sounding like a moron, I'd like to ask a question.... I normally program small utilities at my work place. The kind of things I do can be easily handled by using QB45. However on this occasion, I needed a EXE that would run in the Win 95 enviroment. So I picked up a copy of VB 5 and was fairly surprised when I wrote a small utility with relative ease. At any rate, the utility is running fine, on my computer only. When I move the EXE to another system it keeps giving me an error message that a required DLL "MSVBVM50.DLL" was missing. Now I know that with QB45 I had an option to compile as a stand alone EXE or a EXE requiring BRUN45. I am assuming (from lack of experience), that this is a similar situation. I have looked around but could not find such an option. Can anyone tell me if it is possible to compile to a completely stand alone EXE with VB5? If so, could you point me in the right direction? If it is not possible, what files am I required to distribute with my utility? Thanks for any help in advance.... If possible, please respond to my e-mail address: Thanks... Joe
Fri, 12 Oct 2001 03:00:00 GMT

Dave Lundgre #2 / 5	Stand Alone EXE ? copy the "MSVBVM50.DLL" to the Windows \| system Dir. on the other system. or you can create a setup app that will do it for you then install it to the new system.. Quote: >At the risk of sounding like a moron, I'd like to ask a question.... > I normally program small utilities at my work place. The kind of things >I do can be easily handled by using QB45. However on this occasion, I needed >a EXE that would run in the Win 95 enviroment. So I picked up a copy of VB 5 >and was fairly surprised when I wrote a small utility with relative ease. > At any rate, the utility is running fine, on my computer only. When I >move the EXE to another system it keeps giving me an error message that a >required DLL "MSVBVM50.DLL" was missing. > Now I know that with QB45 I had an option to compile as a stand alone >EXE or a EXE requiring BRUN45. I am assuming (from lack of experience), that >this is a similar situation. I have looked around but could not find such an >option. > Can anyone tell me if it is possible to compile to a completely stand >alone EXE with VB5? If so, could you point me in the right direction? If it >is not possible, what files am I required to distribute with my utility? > Thanks for any help in advance.... If possible, please respond to my >e-mail address: >Thanks... >Joe
Fri, 12 Oct 2001 03:00:00 GMT

David Peak #3 / 5	Stand Alone EXE ? If you don't want the hassles of distributing 10 million files with your app you might consider looking at Delphi. Please no flame mail if you think Delphi's crap, I'm just offering a viable alternative. David Quote: >At the risk of sounding like a moron, I'd like to ask a question.... > I normally program small utilities at my work place. The kind of things >I do can be easily handled by using QB45. However on this occasion, I needed >a EXE that would run in the Win 95 enviroment. So I picked up a copy of VB 5 >and was fairly surprised when I wrote a small utility with relative ease. > At any rate, the utility is running fine, on my computer only. When I >move the EXE to another system it keeps giving me an error message that a >required DLL "MSVBVM50.DLL" was missing. > Now I know that with QB45 I had an option to compile as a stand alone >EXE or a EXE requiring BRUN45. I am assuming (from lack of experience), that >this is a similar situation. I have looked around but could not find such an >option. > Can anyone tell me if it is possible to compile to a completely stand >alone EXE with VB5? If so, could you point me in the right direction? If it >is not possible, what files am I required to distribute with my utility? > Thanks for any help in advance.... If possible, please respond to my >e-mail address: >Thanks... >Joe
Sat, 13 Oct 2001 03:00:00 GMT

Steve Bre #4 / 5	Stand Alone EXE ? Use the Application Setup Wizard included with VB5 to make an installable disk set to move your app to the target computer. There should be an icon for it in the VB program group from your Start menu. The ASW determines the required files for your application and automatically includes them in the disk set and ensures they will be correctly registered on the target computer. It works fairly well for most small apps. Don't be alarmed at the # of disks it requires! Steve Quote: >At the risk of sounding like a moron, I'd like to ask a question.... > I normally program small utilities at my work place. The kind of things >I do can be easily handled by using QB45. However on this occasion, I needed >a EXE that would run in the Win 95 enviroment. So I picked up a copy of VB 5 >and was fairly surprised when I wrote a small utility with relative ease. > At any rate, the utility is running fine, on my computer only. When I >move the EXE to another system it keeps giving me an error message that a >required DLL "MSVBVM50.DLL" was missing. > Now I know that with QB45 I had an option to compile as a stand alone >EXE or a EXE requiring BRUN45. I am assuming (from lack of experience), that >this is a similar situation. I have looked around but could not find such an >option. > Can anyone tell me if it is possible to compile to a completely stand >alone EXE with VB5? If so, could you point me in the right direction? If it >is not possible, what files am I required to distribute with my utility? > Thanks for any help in advance.... If possible, please respond to my >e-mail address: >Thanks... >Joe
Sat, 13 Oct 2001 03:00:00 GMT

Paranoi #5 / 5	Stand Alone EXE ? Quote: >At the risk of sounding like a moron, I'd like to ask a question.... > I normally program small utilities at my work place. The kind of things >I do can be easily handled by using QB45. However on this occasion, I needed >a EXE that would run in the Win 95 enviroment. So I picked up a copy of VB 5 >and was fairly surprised when I wrote a small utility with relative ease. > At any rate, the utility is running fine, on my computer only. When I >move the EXE to another system it keeps giving me an error message that a >required DLL "MSVBVM50.DLL" was missing. > Now I know that with QB45 I had an option to compile as a stand alone >EXE or a EXE requiring BRUN45. I am assuming (from lack of experience), that >this is a similar situation. I have looked around but could not find such an >option. > Can anyone tell me if it is possible to compile to a completely stand >alone EXE with VB5? If so, could you point me in the right direction? If it >is not possible, what files am I required to distribute with my utility? > Thanks for any help in advance.... If possible, please respond to my >e-mail address: >Thanks... >Joe If you're just using the normal VB controls, then all the other user will need are the VBRUNTIME files for whatever version of VB you programmed it in (you can get these at most VB web-sites). Unfortunately, a VB app cant be run without accessing these libs, and the safest way to ensure your app works on another PC is to include a setup util using the setup wizard. Paranoid
Sat, 13 Oct 2001 03:00:00 GMT

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