I'm looking for a recommendation on a development tool for creating a
tiny, standalone EXE (no DLL runtimes) that I can use as an application
loader for a VFP application.
The loader can not be in VFP because the loader needs to update VFP
runtimes before it starts the VFP application. I can not use a WSH
script. WinBatch generates very large standalone EXE's (> 500K).
If you have experience with any of the following, what's the smallest
standalone EXE (no dependent DLL's) one can build with:
1. MS C++
2. The "New" Borland Delphi or C++ via www.turboexplorer.com
3. RealBasic 2005
4. InnoSetup used to build a "loader" vs. setup (using InnoSetup's
Pascal)
5. Another tool?
If you're curious how complex the development tool I'm looking for needs
to be, psuedo code for the loader I need to build follows my signature.
Thanks!
Malcolm
// delete files listed in an optional text file
if a file with loader's file name and .delete file extension exists
read this .delete file one line at a time
attempt to delete file listed on each line - ignore errors
endif
// safely copy *.*_ files to their *.* equivalents
if the following files exist: vfp9r.dll_, vfp9enu.dll_
// make sure affected files are not in use
if we can exclusive open the following files:
vfp9r.dll, vfp9r.dll_, vfp9enu.dll, vfp9enu.dll_
copy vfpr9.dll_ to vfp9.dll
copy vfp9enu.dll_ to vfp9enu.dll
endif
if the above file copies are successful
delete files vfp9r.dll_, vfp9enu.dll_
endif
endif
// start the associated vfp app with loader's original command line
run LoaderFile+"_".exe <original command line>
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