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My app takes up less than 0.5 MB and the required ressoucefiles (vfp8t.dll & vfp8renu.dll) take up 4.8 MB and yet the setup.exe created by Installshield Xpress is more tha 10.5 MB large. Any suggestions to how I can reduce the size of my distribution setup file ?
[267 byte] By [PC-Gram] at [2008-2-5]
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# 1
There is an option to compress the setup files in InstallShield. There is no way your app can run without the VFP runtime files. There are options to lower the size of your own EXE:
- use JPG instead of BMP
- exclude graphic and report files if possible
- remove debugging information
- run Clean Up Project from the Project menu

But what's the point here anyway? 10.5 mb is small. CDROM's are cheap, large HD's are normal and widely available and don't cost very much either.

EricdenDoop at 2007-9-8 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual FoxPro,Visual FoxPro General...
# 2
Thanx,
Guess you are right about the importance of size. The problem is though, that I only want to distribute on the Internet, and where I live, we are still underdeveloped in regard to connection speeds
PC-Gram at 2007-9-8 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual FoxPro,Visual FoxPro General...
# 3
PC-Gram,
Check out the free Inno Setup setup builder at www.innosetup.com. This easy to use tool produces the smallest single file setups. You should be able to cut the size of your setup by almost 50% compared to your InstallShield setups.
I have Wise, InstallShield, and SetupFactory, but prefer to use Inno Setup when given the option by my clients.
Highly recommended.
Malcolm
MalcolmGreene at 2007-9-8 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual FoxPro,Visual FoxPro General...
# 4
The setup is larger than just the runtime, because the runtime itself has dependencies, too. For instance, it uses the MSVCRT70.DLL or MSVCRT71.DLL libraries, might require the XML4 parser, and so forth. What I'd probably do is provide one setup that contains your application and the VFP runtime and one setup that contains just the application. This saves those downloading the whole program that already have the VFP 8 runtime installed.
ChristofWollenhaupt at 2007-9-8 > top of Msdn Tech,Visual FoxPro,Visual FoxPro General...
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