Installing the old Borland Database Engine (BDE32)

[Domi]

Hi,

is there any script to include to install (during an installation) the old BDE32 (Borland Database Engine); in my previous installation software (Wise), a script was supplied, I had just to include it ...

If not, what is the way to install it ?

Thanks in advance,
sincerly,
Domi.

[Ulrich]

If you have the installer for the BDE you need, then it should be possible to write the detection and installation functions for it. Once you have them, you can call the functions or as part of a dependency module, or during your installer, like in the On Pre Install or On Post Install event scripts.

Ulrich

[Domi]

Hi Ulrich,

thanks for your reply but what do you have in mind with "to write the detection for it" ? is there any tool which "catches" the installation of an external module ?? - I don't follow you ....

Domi.

[Ulrich]

You have to write the code to check for the Windows Installer product code, registry entries, or files which can be used to clearly identify the product as installed on the target computer. This is a manual process, there is no tool which can do this for you, although an installation monitor software can help in pointing the changes done on the target system. Once you know if the installer for this third party technology must be executed as part of the setup of your product, you need to write a script which runs it, possibly with command line arguments, and checking if other required tech is already available (a certain Visual C runtime, .NET Framework, etc.).

Ulrich