Setting up Visual Basic 6 on Dual-Boot system
Hi!
I have Windows2000 and Windows 98 both set up on the same machine (dual boot) on separate partitions
I have Visual Basic 6 SP5 installed on Win2000.
Can I make this instalation of Visual Basic work under Win98 also? ( without installing it to a different directory )
At the moment, when I try to run VB6.exe from Win98, I get error saying that some dll's are missing.
Is it enough to just copy the missing dll's OR is there something else I can do OR do I have to install it again under Win98?
Note: I don't need the intire Visual Studio nor MSDN. Just Visual Basic being able to open and compile a project under Win98.
Thanks!
I have Windows2000 and Windows 98 both set up on the same machine (dual boot) on separate partitions
I have Visual Basic 6 SP5 installed on Win2000.
Can I make this instalation of Visual Basic work under Win98 also? ( without installing it to a different directory )
At the moment, when I try to run VB6.exe from Win98, I get error saying that some dll's are missing.
Is it enough to just copy the missing dll's OR is there something else I can do OR do I have to install it again under Win98?
Note: I don't need the intire Visual Studio nor MSDN. Just Visual Basic being able to open and compile a project under Win98.
Thanks!
David Lee
I've never tried anythign like this myself so my statements here are just an opinion. At the very least you'd have to copy all the dll's that VB depends on and you'd have to register them (i.e. via regsvr32 or whatever there is on Win98 that's analogous to that) so they're added to the registry. But even then I'd be concerned about registry entries that VB makes during installation and depends on for VB to operate properly. In short, I'd say it's a bad idea to try this.
Why not try installing it again in Win98 but install it into the same directory as the WIN2000 install, overwriting the files. This (hopefully) would create all the necessary dll's and registry entries and still only have one copy of the files on your hard drive.
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Sorry jmwheeler,didn't see your comment there when I posted.
No problem.
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Thanks!
It's working now.
I had some trouble at the beginning becouse projects created and saved under Win2k were bound to several ActiveX controls in WinNT/System directory, and thus were not working under Win98.
Manual redirection solved it.
Funny thing is that not all controls were miss-bound. Some were redirected automaticaly.
It's working now.
I had some trouble at the beginning becouse projects created and saved under Win2k were bound to several ActiveX controls in WinNT/System directory, and thus were not working under Win98.
Manual redirection solved it.
Funny thing is that not all controls were miss-bound. Some were redirected automaticaly.