putting your vb app to a computer without vb runtime???

[LawnNinja]

I have Inno setup but I'm unclear on one thing. How do you go about finding the required files to run your program.

[numtel]

Do the package and deployment wizard first then you'll know what files are required.

[omfgz]

ok i got the same question too i got extra folders in it which it loads data from how do i add that to my setup?

[randem]

PDW will not always find all the files that you need however ********** will expecially for Inno Setup.

[solinent]

And you can use depends.exe to find EVERYTHING your app calls (run it in dynamic mode). That's what I used, and then I figured all the DLLS that came installed with Windows and all the dlls that you're not allowed redistributing, and the ones that were left were the ones it needed.

EDIT: Personally If I were you I would switch to NSIS, and get HM NIS Editor, it makes everything for you, then you can customise, ask me for more help if you want to (nsis has a smaller overhead (34kb I believe)). It's a matter of personal preference though.

[randem]

That's the hard way and you have to do that with each dll you have in your project to cross check.

[solinent]

Yeh it was pretty hard. I remember I asked the same question and you responded, and told me to use inno script. But it didn't tell me of a dll that I knew I had, and then the trial ran out so I couldn't further test it

[randem]

It would not find dll's that you do not have a reference for in your project. If you dynamically load it... it will not be found. Otherwise all dll's will be found.

[solinent]

It would not find dll's that you do not have a reference for in your project. If you dynamically load it... it will not be found. Otherwise all dll's will be found.

I think it was that an OCX in my prog loaded a seperate DLL, and it didn't find that DLL. Anyways it did give me a good list (everything else except another dll that was called in the same way). In the end I just got rid of that dll entirely from my program because it wasn't needed, and didn't distribute it.

[randem]

Also you may not have seen it because it was removed for possibly being unsafe to deploy.

[solinent]

The first dll is safe, it's xaudio.dll and it's called by mp3p.ocx. It's for playing MP3 files.

[randem]

If that ocx was referenced in your project the dll would have been found or at least noted. If you did not have the correct paths in the search path for ********** to search it would not have found it, but it would have still been noted that it was needed. Two very different issues.

[MartinLiss]

Moved.

[LawnNinja]

Thanks everone.