Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] portable app for windows.

[David E. <de...@us...>]

John R. Culleton wrote:

 > In Tcl/Tk we have the concept and implementation of
 > a feature called a tclkit.
 > The entire applicaton, including all necessary runtime
 > components, can be packaged into a single zip file which
 > can be unzipped and run on a foreign system.
 > This is primarily applicable to MSWIn systems, which
 > typically won't have a COBOL runtime installed.
 >
 > Let me start with the basic question: what minimum
 > requirement is there on a MSWin system to run a TinyCOBOL
 > executable?
 >
 > End users are not into installing Cygwin etc.

Any application compiled with MinGW does not require other libraries
(DLL's) to run on any Win32 platform (Asta-la-Vista ?).

The only requirements to run a TC executable, compiled using MinGW, is
the TC run-time, and the TC run-time helper libraries, PDcurses and BDB1.
Plus what ever extra libraries used (ex. Tcl/Tk).

If static libraries are used, in the link step, to create a Win32
executable, then no other libraries (DLL's) need to be installed.

If any DLL's are used, in the link step, to create a Win32 executable,
then these DLL's are required, to be installed on the system, to run the
executable.

Hope this helps.