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Started by johnmarinelli March 03, 2013 06:35 PM

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johnmarinelli

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March 03, 2013 06:35 PM

Hi everyone,

So I've finally finished something that I'm willing to let into the wild. I've built it using SDL & VS2010. The problem is, I have <i>no</i> experience distributing apps. I tried to run it in release mode, and I get errors like


c:\users\john marinelli\desktop\~\programming $hit\c++ sources\killstuff\killstuff\c_Entity.h(2): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'SDL.h': No such file or directory

so, I assume that I have to re-link the libraries or something, but before I go and do that and potentially mess things up I'd like to know exactly what to do.

EddieV223

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March 03, 2013 06:58 PM

everything you setup for debug must also be setup for release, one trick is to click all configurations in the project settings window while setting up a project. Sometimes you still need to setup separate settings though, for example if you have a debug lib and a release lib.

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johnmarinelli

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March 03, 2013 09:08 PM

So I basically do everything the same for release mode as I did in debug mode? As in, going into the properties menu and editing the libraries to link to, etc...

After that, will the solution be saved in its own file? Then do I put all the dlls in that file?

Endurion

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March 04, 2013 06:35 AM

No, it merely should be able to build the executable, but this time it will be linked to release runtime.

You still have to deliver all your dependency Dlls manually.

It's important to only deliver the release build, since the debug runtime is usually only available on developers PCs.

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Andy474

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March 04, 2013 10:59 AM

fyi ... http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php use this [Innosetup] to distribute, it will create a nice installer :)

NightCreature83

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March 05, 2013 01:54 PM

You can use dependency walker to figure out which dlls you need to distribute with your application.

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