set.
See the Irie Pascal Programmer's Reference Manual (in "progref.html") for more information.
3.12.1 Programing Sockets
See the Irie Pascal Programmer's Reference Manual (in "progref.html") for more information on how to
program sockets.
3.13.1 Distributing Irie Pascal programs
Distributing Irie Pascal Programs
So you have written your program, finished testing it, and now you are ready to distribute it. Well, most
Windows programs nowadays are distributed as setup packages, and these setup packages provide an easy
way for the programs to be installed to, and uninstalled from, the user's computer. If you decide to
distribute your program as a setup package, you will need to use a third-party utility to create the setup
package, because Irie Pascal does not include such a utility. Using a third-party utility should not be a
problem because Irie Pascal programs are very easy to install.
Setup Folders
Most, if not all, setup packages will prompt the user to select the installation folder (i.e. the folder that the
program files should be installed into). The utility that creates the setup package will allow you to specify
which files you want to put into the installation folder. Most setup creation utilities also allow you to
specify which files to put in special directories, such as the Windows folder, or the Windows Systems
folder. In the case of Irie Pascal programs you basically have two choices for placing files:
1. You can put all the files into the installation folder
2. You can put all the files, except the Irie Run-Time Engine, into the installation folder. The Irie
Run-Time Engine can be installed into the Windows System folder or the Windows folder.
See below for more information about the files you will need to distribute with your program.
Running Your Program
You probably can't depend on the users of your program having Irie Pascal installed on their computers,
so you will probably want the setup package to provide an easy way to run your program. Most setup
creation utilities can create setup packages that will add your program to the Windows Start Menu, or
create a shortcut, on the Desktop, to your program, or both.
If your program is an IVM executable then there is a slight problem you will need to overcome. The
problem is that Windows, right out of the box, does not know how to run Irie Virtual Machine (IVM)
executables.
One way to deal with this problem is to teach Windows how to run IVM executables. This is done
by creating an association in Windows between the extension .ivm and the IVM Interpreter (i.e.
tell Windows that the IVM Interpreter should be used to execute/open files with the .ivm
extension). When Irie Pascal is installed on a computer, this association is automatically created,
