making it .exe

I wanted to put my program on floppy and bring it over to my friend's. I used the make exe command and copied the other file that goes with it, but when I copied it to my friend's computer and then tried to double-click it, I got a message "A required .DLL file, MSVBVM60.DLL was not found." I then figured I'd have to copy that file to his computer but when I found it in \windows\system, it took up almost a whole floppy.

What's the deal with making your program .exe? Can't I make it totally self-contained? If not, is there any freeware I can use to make it self-extracting so it will fit onto one floppy?



mikeycorn

Welocme to the download side of VB. You need all of the Runtime files to run it.

Use the Package and Deployment Wizard to create the setup for your EXE then give it to your friend. But be warned. All of a sudden, your 50KB App turns into about 2MB with all of the Runtime files and controls.

Or on your friends computer, go on the internet and download these necessary files from softseek in order to run a vb6 program to the C:\Windows\System directory: http://www.softseek.com/Utilities/VB...823_index.html

this is microsoft's site for the runtime files ...

http://support.microsoft.com/support/vbasic/runtime.asp