Help with the Package Wizard (please) :(

[Hambone]

I have an VB application..... the EXE is only 64K but after using the Package Wizard and making a zip file of the Setup.exe, Setup List, and CAB file the zip file is 2.74 Megs!

I see that (alone):

MSVBVM60.DLL is ~1.3M
and
MSCOMCTL.OCX is ~1 M


Is there anything I can do about this? It seems nuts to have someone download almost 3 Megs when the EXE is only 64K!

Thanks for any help...

[Jeff Carlin]

Well, if you want the app to work...

In a MS 32-bit environment, you must have all needed DLLs, OCXs, etc. resident and registered on the host machine. As a result, you must include them all. Perhaps you could make different levels of installs based on files that your users already have. For example, if they already have a particular DLL, they could download the version without that DLL, etc.

The nice part of this deal is that if you later make changes to the app without changing the "references", yo can then merely send the updated exe without a full re-install.

Jeff

[Edited by Jeff Carlin on 11-18-2000 at 09:15 AM]

[HeSaidJoe]

You can't run VB exe(s) without the runtime and ocx for the controls. Sucks big time but that is VB. If the pc your application is heading for has those files already you can just make an exe instead of a setup application but that is about it.