Re: [BLACKBOX] Creating EXE applications

From: Douglas G. Danforth <"Douglas>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:53:53 -0800

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Aubrey,
Thank you very much! That is the type of organization for wich I was
lookingr. With your structure and Chris' pointer to Robert's guidelines
I should
be able to put this all together.
-Doug Danforth


Aubrey.McIntosh{([at]})nowhere.xy
> I have a solution to this on another disk that is offline. I don't
> see my usb cable with extra power right now. I'll find it later and
> share my solution to this.
>
> I'm sure I took a long and meandering path to a simple solution. The
> names that are almost correct are DevPacker, DevLinker, some sort of
> Tool with DevLinker to find all the necessary .Mod files.
>
> Copy and Move are different.
>
> >From a partially reliable memory with untested revisions:
>
> 1. Build a minimal linked BB. Name this NDA.Exe.
> 2. Build other empty BB top level directory. Move (not copy) all the
> restricted files
> to this directory. Designate (rename) this directory "NDA"
> 3. Repeat this process with those files you do not plan to
> distribute, but which you could. Designate this directory "Optional"
> 4. The original directory now contains only files you do plan to
> release with your product. Designate this directory "Release"
> 5. And finally, an empty directory named "Proof"
> 6. Audit time: Four directories, no overlapping contents. "NDA,"
> "Optional," "Release," and "Proof"
> 7. Copy NDA.exe to Release.exe
> 8. Put the NDA file system into the NDA.EXE file. Name this
> executable "NDA.exe" (DevPacker?)
> 9. Move "NDA.exe" in the Freely directory. Start it. You should see
> the development environment and the project files. You can do your
> development work as usual with one special concern. That concern is
> this. If you save a file that belongs in the NDA tree, you have to
> reconstruct the correct step 5 (with no files packed into NDA.exe)
> 10. Copy the Release.exe to the Release directory. Start it. You
> should see what your customer will see.
> 11. Copy Release.exe to Release000.exe. Pack it with all the files
> in the directory Release. Run it in directory "Proof" in order to
> prove it.
> 12. If you edit the customer files and compile then save them, the new
> version is in the windows file system, the old version is in
> Release000.exe.
> 13. Create Release<nnn> at astute milestones.
> 14. Run version Release<ship candidate>.Exe in Proof. It will start
> from only one file, but with all the files your customer will see.
> 15. You can temporarily move the Dev directory into Proof, and use
> DevRepository to view the entire filesystem hidden on the disk.
>
> Again, this is from memory, but the process was tested some years ago.
>

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