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

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

John R. Culleton wrote:

 > ...
 > Can all the required files be packaged up in
 > zip file and deployed into a single directory
 > on the end user's machine?
 >
 > I think I can avoid using DLLs although I have
 > not yet fooled with Tiny on a Windows partition.

Yes you can install all files into a single directory.
Unless you are deploying a large number of executables, I would use 
static libraries.
This way no TC run-time elements are required by the end user.

To save yourself and the end user much aggravation, you may wish to use 
an installation generation program.
When run, the install program which will create short-cuts, un-install 
file, and most other things which Win32 users expect.

TC (MinGW edition) uses INNO setup. It generates an install program from 
about 20 lines of options (script). See tcobol.iss, generated by the 
configure script 'tconfig.mingw.sh' from 'info/isetup/tcobol.iss.in'.

Some things to keep in mind when using Win32 and MinGW.

If a DLL version of a library is found, the DLL will be used in the link 
step.

Console and GUI applications are compiled differently (see tgui02).
So if console applications is compiled as a GUI application, the 
ACCEPT/DISPLAY verbs will not work properly.

DLL's need to be installed in the CWD or the PATH or SYSTEM PATH, 
otherwise the application will fail to run with a DLL not found error 
dialog.

Hope this helps.