Developer’s Guide (Mac OS)

Chapter 5: Distributing your bundled solution
The final step in preparing your bundled solution is creating an
installation procedure for your solution. To distribute your bundled
solution, you need to:
1 choose and organize the files that your end-users need to use your
solution
1 choose how you will distribute your solution, for example on a
CD-ROM or on several floppy disks
1 provide your end-users with documentation for installing your solution
Choosing your solution files
Start by gathering all the files that are included in your bundled solution.
These include the bound primary and auxiliary files, the runtime
application, and optional files that enable networking, data and graphic
importing, and spell-checking software. On Windows, include the DLLs
that are created during the binding process. If your end-users have
Windows 3.1 or Windows for Workgroups 3.11, they’ll need to have
Win32s 1.30c or newer installed before using your solution files. You
can copy Win32s 1.30c disks from the CD-ROM or get the latest version
from Microsoft.
Collect all your files in one folder, which will mimic the configuration
that you will send to your end-users.
Include the optional files that your end-users might need in the
appropriate folder inside the solution folder. These optional files are in
the Runtime Files folder for the Macintosh and the RUNTIME folder for
Windows. Refer to appendix B for the exact location of FileMaker Pro
files on the CD-ROM.
Important The optional files and folders inside the solution folder cannot
be moved or renamed.