DIrector CD Packaging

[Michael Bedar]

Thanks for the info!


On Mar 9, 2006, at 3:36 AM, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:

> On 3/9/06 1:52 AM, "Michael Bedar" <mike at bedar.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Michael,
>
>> I'm using Valentina for the first time, and I was wondering if anyone
>> had any guides or pointers to setting up a Director Hybrid CD that
>> uses Valentina.. I develop on a Mac, and I use Toast to make a Win/
>> Mac Hybrid CD, which I have down pretty well, but I'm not sure what
>> to do with the vComponents Folder.
>
> In V4MD Reference, Deployment part, pointed that you should copy  
> all items
> of VComponents folder (but not folder itself) into folder where is  
> your
> Projector.
>
> As I understand you will have 2 projectors -- one for MAC and one  
> EXE for
> Windows. For each of them you should use own VComponents from V4MD  
> MAC and
> V4MD WIN archives correspondently
>
>
>>  From what I have been reading, I need to include the contents of the
>> vComponets for both Win and Mac on the respective partitions on the
>> CD... and I have a few questions about this..
>
> yes
>
>> First, can I download these files in a zip archive anywhere?
>
> no
>
>> Seems  strange that I have to install on 2 platforms to get all  
>> the files i
>> need...
>
> Well, may be you are right
>
>> Second, Do all these files really have to be in the root directory of
>> the CD?  Is there no way to hide them?
>
> No way, because only this is how Windows or MAcOS can find dlls on  
> default.
>
> If you'd install them on HDD then you could put VComponents  
> somewhere and
> point that location in the PATH variable for Windows.
>
>> I will have stub projectors
>> for the PC/Mac, each of which will load the main DIR file.. do the
>> vComponents files need to be in the same directory as the projector,
>> or of the file that is making the first Valentina call? I suppose a
>> quick and dirty solution could be an alias..
>
> OS searches for dlls in the folder of main executable.
>
>> Also, Are all the files required? The docs hint that some may not be.
>> I really did not expect to be including 30-40 megs of application
>> files and would like to minimize the size hit as much as possible.
>
> You can skip
>
> A) vclient dll
> B) VDK.dll
>
>> Last, what are  msvcp71.dll and msvcr71.dll?  are they part of
>> Valentina?
>
> This is Microsoft C++ runtime dlls. They must present
>
> -- 
> Best regards,
>
> Ruslan Zasukhin
> VP Engineering and New Technology
> Paradigma Software, Inc
>
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