Kodigo

OK, this issue is pretty serious. Everytime I build an exe using the current Kodigo 4, it only runs on the machine it was built on. If I deploy on a different machine, it does not run. The error is always PBNI related, if I rebuild the PBD on said machine, the exe will run w/o errors.

Can someone please verify my findings? If this is true, I may have to rethink the PBNI part. It is important that when an exe is delivered, it should run without having o rebuild the PBD on target machine.

Hi Yeyi

I have tried that at my end, it seems, that it has become mandatory to rebuild the exe on the every node where we are installing this Client Application.

Any support required count me too, so that I could learn from you.

Premji

I have tried it and it works fine for me. Previously I had only downloaded it at work. I have PB 10.2.1 Build 9004. Here is what I did:

Downloaded zip file and extracted

Deleted and recreated kodigoPBNI.pbd using pbx2pbd100

Created a new Project and compiled the program with Full Rebuild option

Created a Deploy subdirectory and copied .exe, .pbx and all .pbd files to Deploy

Copied PB runtimes to Deploy: libjcc.dll, libjutils.dll, pbdwe100.dll, pbshr100.dll & pbvm100.dll

Then I copied the Deploy directory to two other computers in my house. Both worked no problem. One of the computers only has PB9 installed on it.

All three of my computers are Windows XP SP2 Home standard USA edition.

There must be some kind of version mismatch. The PBNI .pbd seems to be very picky about that.

Thanks for the reassurance, Roland, I will have to test it again on other machines at work just to be sure.

At any rate, I managed to come up with a non-PBNI version, just a straight DLL. It works alright, just not as fast as PBNI, but good enough. If I can improve the performance, this might be a better alternative. But I won't give up on PBNI just yet.

If you figure out the PBNI deploy issue, you could keep the DLL version for older PB versions that don't support PBNI. I have all versions PB6 and later.

Hi Premji, Roland

Thanks again for trying out the issue. I have posted a new Preview w/c replaces PBNI w/ a straight DLL. The performance and feature set is exactly the same, but it provides more stable debugging in PB and of course deployment. This will also open up the possibility of porting Kodigo to earlier versions of Powerbuilder, even before PB9 (1st PBNI support).

I'm still doing some cleaning and performance tuning, stay tuned.