Re: How to create an .exe file

On Feb 5, 4:53=A0pm, Veli-Matti <veli-matti.jantu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> you probably don't have a Dyalog interpreter on your pc
> >> veli-matti included the Dyalog Runtime int. and that will be closed
> >> for obvious reasons.
>
> >> one need to package the necessary Runtime int. + the pertinent WS's
>
> > Created and tested on the same pc
>
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 )LOAD "C:\Windows\system32\testa.DWS"
> > C:\Windows\system32\testa saved Tue Feb 05 14:08:11 2008
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 fun
>
> > 4 5 6 4
> > 5 6 4 5
> > 6 4 5 6
>
> > works fine direct but not executable
>
> I really skipped some obvious points including:
>
> - you need either to make some kind of GUI and launch it with []DQ '.'
> or your executable needs to handle the input and output in some clever
> way (I have made batches that start with the executable and some
> parametres, the io is always used via text files); in both cases there
> MUST be something sensible in the []LX
>
> - you cannot have/use Session (and that's why you got the error message)
>
> - there are (at least) two ways to make runtime apps: either packaging
> the workspace to an executable and delivering it with the runtime dll or
> just having the Dyalog runtime interpreter with the []LX'ed workspace
> (the former method needs a little bit more work to do, but you get a
> 'standard' Windows solution with dynamic memory handling, the latter is
> more or less straighforward way to do the same thing, but you have to
> advise the user to launch it with something like
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 [Drive:][path]DyalogRuntime.exe Application.dws
>
> Hmmm.. =A0reading the manual might be a goood idea here?
>
> Yours
> - Veli-Matti

how about just a very simple step by step example what to do to create
a .exe that can be distributed and what files need to be distributed
together with it.

The application should read a file with the content

--------
hello world
-----------

The application then creates and writes a file with the content

----------
goodby world
------------


This is a very standard thing normal computer languages can and do.

I have never seen an APL application been able to do this.

Even J can not do this.

Create an .exe and do the rest, that is.

Not having an .exe has been a major disadvantage in the APL
environment.
Now being able to do it is Dyalog is really a huge step forward.

Having a very simple description HOW and WHAT to do it is a huge major
step too.

If we had had this feature years ago we would not have been fending
off and dodging the compiler question all the time.
It is not a question of having a compiler it has and is always THE
question: " can you create a .exe? =A8"

If now yes the " HOW? "