Using the Deployment Helper Foundation

The Deployment Helper analyzes an Xbase++ executable or DLL file and recursively determines all required DLL dependencies. The tool can operate in two modes: show dependencies or deploy dependencies. In show mode, it displays a list of all detected dependencies. In deploy mode, it copies all dependencies along with the target file to a deployment directory.

The tool automatically includes commonly used database engine DLLs that are typically required by Xbase++ applications. System DLLs are filtered out by default to focus on application-specific dependencies. When available, corresponding .config files are also included in the deployment.

Typical usage scenarios

Analyzing dependencies

This displays all detected dependencies for the specified executable or DLL without copying any files.

1) // Show dependencies for an executable 
   xppdh myapp.exe 

2) // Show dependencies with additional warnings 
   xppdh -w myapp.exe 

3) // Show dependencies including system DLLs 
   xppdh -nof myapp.exe 

Creating deployment packages

This copies the target file and all its dependencies to the .\deploy directory. The deployment directory is created automatically if it does not exist.

1) // Deploy application with all dependencies 
   xppdh -d myapp.exe 

2) // Deploy without config files 
   xppdh -d -noc myapp.exe 

3) // Deploy with specific database engine only 
   xppdh -d -pg myapp.exe 

Customizing database engine inclusion

By default, all supported database engines are included. These options allow selection of specific database engines or exclusion of all database engines.

1) // Deploy with PostgreSQL database engine only 
   xppdh -d -pg myapp.exe 

2) // Deploy with Advantage Database Server only 
   xppdh -d -ads myapp.exe 

3) // Deploy without any default database engines 
   xppdh -d -nod myapp.exe