Re: need help deploying w95 forms 5.0 app

From: Roland Schaar <rschaar_at_gosch.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 19:55:52 +0200
Message-ID: <37727128.90F79013_at_gosch.com>

Hi Jim!

You are right, LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ORACLE is the only key in the registry that is required for a working oracle installation. We have a network installation of Oracle running in our company. (It is not officially supported by the Oracle Hotline!!!)

The directory ORANT is located on a share on the fileserver. When we want to setup an new client, we

- connect to the share
- import to registry key LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ORACLE
- use the installation CD and install the packages "System Required Files" (or

"system support files", I do not know it exactly by heart)

This does not really solve your problem, but maybe helps you.

roland
DI Roland Schaar
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> We have converted all of our forms and reports and anything else to Forms
> 5.0 and reports 3.0 (from forms 4.5 and reports 2.5).
>
> Now: the fun task of making it work for the end users.
>
> Here we go:
>
> 1) Install Developer 2000 2.1 - ORAWIN95 (oracle home dir) to network drive
> s:\orawin95 (we found the minimal install minus any builders and doc files
> works fine). check.
>
> 2) SOURCE FILES (fmx, rep, pll, mmx...) s:\eis. registry keys FORMS50_PATH,
> REPORTS30_PATH, TK25_ICON key are modified to point to s:\eis accordingly.
> check.
>
> 3) LOCAL FILES: HELP!!! We can't seem to isolate all the local files
> (c:\windows\system or whatever) placed on the client by step 1. We have
> tried using SMS to give us an idea. We compared directories before/after
> manually. When we click to launch the app, the cursor goes to an hourglass,
> then returns to the default cursor - no messages or anything.
>
> The application launches ok on the system we originated the install on, but
> when we try to make an InstallShield project with the required files on the
> client, and then try to install and run on a "virgin" machine, it just won't
> click. If I try to run f50run32 from the bin directory, it won't do anything
> either.
>
> Million dollar question: Can somebody just provide me with a complete list
> of DLL files or whatever that need to be installed on the client? I can trim
> the list down if I have time - but I am so pissed off with this mundane task
> that I really don't care if I waste a couple megs on the client's machine at
> this point, as long as it works.. And what about the registry: Is
> LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ORACLE the only key that needs to be modified on the
> client (apart from any self-registering DLLs)?
>
> Thanks
Received on Thu Jun 24 1999 - 19:55:52 CEST