"Cannot locate the Microsoft Visual FoxPro Support Library"

Author: Hines, Catherine

Posted: 2005-12-14 at 08:22:40

We (in this department) have a small FoxPro executable written in FoxPro

2.6. It's been running fine on a dedicated machine in the customer area

until about six months ago, when the users determined that they needed

to both move it to other desktops and to modify it. We haven't yet

tried to modify it because we can't get it to run on my desktop but

mine, so far. I have VFP 7.0 installed, as well as 2.6.

The new users - the customers - get the error message above, which is

pretty surprising since 2.6 is pre-VFP but I assume it is a Windows

thing. I'm using Windows XP Pro 2002 service pack 2, as are they.

I looked this message up online and found the recommendation to copy two

files (vfp6r.dll, vfp6renu.dll) to c:\windows\system directory of the

desktop with the problem. The tech guy has done that, but is still

getting the error. My desktop has the vfp8 version of those files; the

directory containing the executable that we're trying to run contains

the vfp5 versions.

Any suggestions? We added the directory containing all of the Fox DLLs

to the PATH statement on the desktop, but that did not solve the

problem, either.

Catherine Hines

©2005 Hines, Catherine