dBASE Deployment - DBASE Runtime error

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DBASE Runtime error

Mickey Cheong

2005-05-13, 7:23 am

Hi,

Sigh, I just found out an error when i try to install into a computer without the dBASE Runtime engine. My software is compiled using ScriptMaker 5 and InnoSetup. During my installation, at the stage of dBASE PLUS Runtime, an error pop ups and says "Error
(0) loading resource file PLUSR_??.DLL
Cannot start this application."

I duno what error is that. Maybe I change it because during compilation it ask for PLUSRuntime_1804b.exe (something like that) instead of the original PLUSrun.exe. Hence I thought of renaming it and it works, but i didnt think at that time it actually ski
pped this installation. Can anyone help me? I need to submit this software asap. Thanks a lot.

Regards,
Mickey

Todd Kreuter

2005-05-13, 11:23 am

Mickey Cheong wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Sigh, I just found out an error when i try to install into a computer without the dBASE Runtime engine. My software is compiled using ScriptMaker 5 and InnoSetup. During my installation, at the stage of dBASE PLUS Runtime, an error pop ups and says "Err
or (0) loading resource file PLUSR_??.DLL
> Cannot start this application."

You have to install the runtime and the bde files to the machine. There
is a runtime installer that can be run separatly from your install or
incorporated into your install. I normally do them separately, as the
runtime/bde is not updated as often as my application.

--
Todd Kreuter [dBVIPS]

Mickey Cheong

2005-05-17, 3:23 am

Mickey,

Sorry, I'm kinda blur at what you said. Your point is that we install seperately, but wont that defeat the purpose of innosetup. The in-built auto installation of dbase runtime and BDE Admin is to help to make installation easy and smooth.

About installing the runtime again, I've tried to unisntall and reinstall again. but ti didnt work. Any way around it? I tried install the dbase runtime from the web, but it didnt seems to work. can anyone help?

Regards
Mickey

Todd Kreuter [dBVIPS]

2005-05-18, 3:23 am

"Mickey Cheong" < ns_mickeyckm@ns_gmai
l.com> wrote in message
news:Hv2HHJqWFHA.444@news-server...
> Sorry, I'm kinda blur at what you said. Your point is that we install
seperately, but wont that defeat the purpose of innosetup. The in-built auto
installation of dbase runtime and BDE Admin is to help to make installation
easy and smooth.

I don't know what you mean by using inno setup? I use inno by itself to to
create my installs. Are you talking about the inno portion in Project
Explorer?

At any rate, sounds like you tried doing the separate runtime installer and
it still fails? Do a hard drive search for plus*.dll files on the test
machine and see if you get any results. Did you specify any specific
language?

Todd Kreuter [dBVIPS]

Gabriel Picache

2005-06-20, 3:23 am

How about that? I encountered the same problem. While deploying an application, the exact message popped up: "Error (0) loading resource file PLUSR_??.DLL. Cannot start this application."

What I did wrong was that in my Inno Setup .iss file, I copied into {sys} and ran the runtime file that came with dBPlus 2.5, which is PLUSRun.exe (found in C:\Program Files\dBase\Plus\Run
time).

Instead of PLUSRun.exe, it should have been the dBase Runtime Engine and BDE Installer, a file called PlusRuntime-b1807.exe or PlusRuntime-B1807_XX.exe, where XX denotes a language driver (EN for English, DE for German, ES for Spanish, etc.). BTW the fi
les are found in this webpage:

http://www.dbase.com/updatesandfixes.asp

When I substituted the proper Runtime Engine and BDE Installer file, the problem was solved.

BTW, the error message wherein it tried to load the PLUSR_??.dll file? That's the language driver to be loaded (the '??' corresponds to 'EN', 'DE', 'ES', etc. whatever language driver you chose), which resides in PlusRuntime-b1807.exe (for multi-language)
or PlusRuntime-b1807_XX.exe.

I hope this is what solves your problem.

Gabriel Picache

Mickey Cheong Wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sigh, I just found out an error when i try to install into a computer without the dBASE Runtime engine. My software is compiled using ScriptMaker 5 and InnoSetup. During my installation, at the stage of dBASE PLUS Runtime, an error pop ups and says "Err
or (0) loading resource file PLUSR_??.DLL
> Cannot start this application."
>
> I duno what error is that. Maybe I change it because during compilation it ask for PLUSRuntime_1804b.exe (something like that) instead of the original PLUSrun.exe. Hence I thought of renaming it and it works, but i didnt think at that time it actually s
kipped this installation. Can anyone help me? I need to submit this software asap. Thanks a lot.
>
> Regards,
> Mickey

Jonny Kwekkeboom

2005-06-21, 7:23 am

Hi,

> Instead of PLUSRun.exe, it should have been the dBase Runtime Engine and
> BDE Installer
--
Inside the PlusRuntime-B1807_XX.exe file is the BDE Installer included...

cu
Jonny

Mark Ziburis

2005-07-07, 9:23 am

This thread finally cleared up my confusion on building the install.
However, it installs nicely on the other computer except that the
program fails to find the database files in the database. BDE
administrator shows the database as expected and appears to open when
you double click. Only thing is that the app shows a file not found for
each set of SQL on the form. Any ideas? Do we need to reboot the
computer for it to work properly?

Mark Ziburis

Jonny Kwekkeboom

2005-07-08, 3:23 am

Hi,

normally Inno nows of there is reboot after installation needed or not...
And so I know it is not needed....

Can you mail me your Inno Script so I can look at this entries....

cu
Jonny

"Mark Ziburis" <mziburis@ix.netcom.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> This thread finally cleared up my confusion on building the install.
> However, it installs nicely on the other computer except that the program
> fails to find the database files in the database. BDE administrator shows
> the database as expected and appears to open when you double click. Only
> thing is that the app shows a file not found for each set of SQL on the
> form. Any ideas? Do we need to reboot the computer for it to work
> properly?
>
> Mark Ziburis

Mark Ziburis

2005-07-11, 1:23 pm

Thanks for the reply. Finally got it to work OK. Went back to a
two-year old script and started from there.

Mark

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