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From: jhgreve@epx.cis.umn.edu (John Greve)
Subject: Re: newbie ? -standalone.exe
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In article <421stb$clo@centaur.achilles.net>,
   ricrest@achilles.net (ricrest) wrote:
> 
>>I have (a) Smalltalk/V v2.02, (b) Wilf Lalonde's 'Discovering Smalltalk,
>>(c) Blue Sky's Visual Programmer ( a gui builder that shipped with
>>Symantec C++ v6.0, minus any code generator), and (d) a question:
>>Is there any way to build a standalone win32 or win32s executeable
>>in Smalltalk?

for standalone executables w/VWIN 2.x,
Check the "vwin\readme.txt" file, and searchon "delivery".
It talks about some of what you need to do in section VI.
The particulars of setting how your program starts up are covered
in section VII (search on standalone).

>>Professor Lalonde's book illustrates the use of WindowBuilder 
(Objectshare);
>>I have tried a coupole of times to 'file in' the Blue Sky tool, but no 
go.
>>I recall reading somewhere that the windows SDK was all that was needed 
to build
>> an exe with Digitalk Smalltalk, but that's all I know.
The take home message about the SDK that I got when I read this was
if you want to really know how to use the window's gui model in your
designs, go study windows programming documentation.

I did make a standalone *.exe using the readme file.  It was pretty big,
much bigger than it needed to be, but I just wanted to see if I could
do it and didn't spend any time trying to whittle away unecessary DLL's.

You will need a c compiler (aka Windows SDK) or smth like that to
change the startup dialog (it involves building a replacement startup DLL).
Thats a whole other kettle of fish, check the ms-windows programmer groups. 
 They are informative.  They informed me that I could live with that little
Digitalk balloon for a while. :-)


>>Does anyone out there know? Is the Objectshare tool still available, 
>>or is that the way to go?
I think the object share people are still in business,
check at the Smalltalk Store for more details,
	1-800-787-6389
or
	telnet bbs.smalltalk.com
	

Happy smalltalking,
John G.
jhgreve@epx.cis.umn.edu	




