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Re: MAKE_DLL for DLMs [message #42270 is a reply to message #42267]

Fri, 21 January 2005 06:05

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Haje Korth writes:

> I usually write all my software for myself and never worry about network
> installation. Why does every user need to compile the dlm separately? Can't
> you compile it and throw it in the idl binary directory for everyone to use?
> The only other possibility I see is that the user uses make_dll in a local
> directory and they set ! dlm_path to point to it.

I'll speak for JD, who is too busy counting parentheses this morning
to answer.

The problem with distributing software is that not all of your users
are in the building. Some are in their own buildings, states, countries,
etc. And most don't have the foggiest idea of what they are doing.

So...you have to do it for them. Making someone change his own
path is perilous. Half the users don't know how to. Of the other
half, half of them will put the path in the wrong order. Perhaps
half of one percent will actually know how to figure out which
COLORBAR routine they are actually using.

Even projects don't help as much as you would hope. Often, my client
applications will include several different libraries or projects.
To get them distributed properly, I have to make a single project
for the client. But that means I have multiple copies of my
library on my machine. Aaaachhhh!

Life would be so much easier if we could just combine several
projects in the same project file. Perhaps I'm going to have
to go get the ol' Emacs manual out again. :-(

Cheers,

David

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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		Re: MAKE_DLL for DLMs By: JD Smith on Fri, 21 January 2005 09:55
		Re: MAKE_DLL for DLMs By: David Fanning on Fri, 21 January 2005 08:02
		Re: MAKE_DLL for DLMs By: Haje Korth on Fri, 21 January 2005 07:28
		Re: MAKE_DLL for DLMs By: David Fanning on Fri, 21 January 2005 06:05
		Re: MAKE_DLL for DLMs By: Haje Korth on Fri, 21 January 2005 05:03
		Re: MAKE_DLL for DLMs By: JD Smith on Thu, 20 January 2005 08:58
		Re: MAKE_DLL for DLMs By: Haje Korth on Thu, 20 January 2005 05:09

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