Hi Francisco, I'm due to have to do the same here at some point, ie upgrade to using Crystal 10. We're currently still running CR 8.0 with VCL 8.0 components. For CR 8.0 I originally set up an Installshield "client" setup which included and registered all necessary DLL's, which worked fine. I've done a little preliminary investigations, and have found the following: It seems the preferred method for client installations is to use (as you've also tried) merge modules. However, it also appears to me that the version of installshield that comes with Delphi 7 is too crippled to properly word with the merge modules of CR10 :-( (Anyone know otherwise then please correct me!) For one, some of the CR10 merge modules are configurable, and the express edition of Installshield doesn't support that as far as I could see. So, one solution I suppose would be to buy the full version of Installshield. I/We've not gone there yet though, so I can't comment on that route.
What I have done so far though is to start contstructing an InnoSetup (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php) install script that will when finished install all the required dll's and register those that need registration. There are documentation on the BusinessObjects website the documents which dll's are required for which type of deployment scenarios if you want to "manually" install the required stuff, unfortunately this is quite detailed, you cannot just skim it to find what you'll need in the case of a Delphi app it seems. For this reason I've used several dll monitoring tools to determine which dll's actually gets loaded/used on my developer PC when using CR10, and have basically been determining what to include and what to register like that. Rather messy, but nevertheless I've had some promising results. (I want to try and make sure I don't accidentally include stuff I really don't want or shouldn't include so I've been tweaking and trimming the script, but I have had a successful client install working at one point IIRC, so it's looking promising.) Here's some other relevant links (dll tools, as I mentioned): http://support.businessobjects.com/communityCS/FilesAndUpdates/modules.zip.asp http://www.dependencywalker.com/ I'll try and remember to post an update when I make further progress to the list, if you're interested (unfortunately this is not a high priority job at the moment so I can't tell you when it's likely to be done.) HTH Walter >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Francisco Javier Hernandez Segura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 12:05 AM >Subject: Re: [list] [delphi-en] Crystal reports Merge module > >Ok. >My Crystal version is DEVELOPER 10.0 >How can i use runtime license ? >What's correct procedure for running my reports on clients >computers ... ----------------------------------------------------- Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
