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Other Files Explained

 Keywords: Compiler OTHER FILES OTHERFILES Large Complete EXE skip auto-extraction 

Keep in mind that adding too many large Extenders and "Other files" can easily increase demands on memory and could cause an issue. This is of course dependent on the system memory that is available. This should not however have any effect on the script execution itself, once the files get unloaded.

When using a Large Exe. The EXE looks for the WIL DLL it needs to run. It looks in the "current directory" and "on the system path". If the DLL is not found in either of these places, it writes the DLL to the current directory. If the directory is write protected, an error will occur.

The Other Files are also written to the current directory. If you would like to explicitly place the OTHER FILES somewhere other than the current directory....The Compiler contains an 'option' to skip auto-extraction of extenders and "other files" from large EXE's. See the ExtractAttachedFile() in your WinBatch.chm help file. ExtractAttachedFile allows you to programmatically extract an embedded files from a compiled large EXE (except the WIL DLL, it is always extracted from a large EXE, if necessary). Make sure you choose the skip auto-extraction option in the compiler if you want to control file extraction with ExtractAttachedFile.


Article ID:   W17697
Filename:   Other Files Explained.txt
File Created: 2013:01:11:11:32:16
Last Updated: 2013:01:11:11:32:16