Redistributing Synergy/DE on Windows
When you are ready to distribute your Synergy application, you’ll also need to distribute parts of Synergy/DE. At a minimum, you need to distribute Core Components, which include License Manager and the Synergy Runtime. Your application may require that you distribute other components or products as well. You can, of course, simply install the Synergy/DE components that your application requires from the web download. But you have the option of installing Synergy/DE products from the command line. You can install the following products in this way:
- Synergy/DE
- Synergy/DE Client
- Synergy DBL Integration for Visual Studio
- xfNetLink Java and xfNetLink .NET
- xfODBC Client
- HTML local documentation
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Microsoft .NET Framework must be installed before you can install Synergy/DE. For detailed .NET requirements, see Microsoft .NET Framework requirements. |
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For information on installing Synergy/DE Client, refer to the installation instructions that accompanied your distribution. For detailed information on deploying xfNetLink Java or .NET applications, refer to one of the following: Deploying your xfNetLink Java application or Deploying your xfNetLink .NET application. For detailed information on deploying xfODBC applications, see Configuring Connectivity Series and xfODBC requirements and installation. |
The installations for the products listed above support command line switches that enable you to limit the number of dialog boxes the user sees and interacts with during the installation. The following user interface levels are available:
- Full user interface. Users see all the available dialog boxes. This is the default.
- Reduced user interface. Users see a full-sized progress dialog box with a Cancel button.
- Basic user interface. Users see a small progress dialog box with a Cancel button.
- No user interface. Users see no dialog boxes at all. This is also referred to as a quiet or silent installation.
Regardless of the type of installation, the installed Synergy product is included in the Programs and Features list and can be uninstalled from there or from the command line.
When performing a reduced, basic, or no user interface (UI) installation, the dialog boxes for license configuration and component selection do not display.
- For license configuration, the existing information is used on an upgrade and on any system on which Synergy/DE was previously installed. On a new installation, you include properties on the command line to specify the license configuration and the licensee name or license server name. See Installing Synergy products from the command line.
- For component selection, the current values are used on an upgrade. On a new installation, default values are used. See Default components for Synergy/DE installations.
License agreement requirements
A full user interface installation displays the Synergex Synergy/DE Product License Agreement Terms and Conditions (PLA) and requires that users accept it. However, during a basic, reduced, or no UI installation, the PLA is not displayed, and so you must do one of the following:
- Display the PLA as part of your product installation and require users to accept it. A copy of this document (license.rtf) can be found in most Synergy product installation. For example, in a Synergy/DE installation, it is located in Synergex\SynergyDE\dbl. It is not installed with Synergy/DE Client, SDI, or the HTML local documentation.
- Require users to sign a paper copy of the PLA.
Installation location
The table below shows the installation locations for the various Synergy products.
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Product |
Installation directory |
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Synergy/DE |
<Program Files> \ Synergex \ SynergyDE |
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Synergy/DE Client |
N/A |
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Synergy DBL Integration for Visual Studio |
N/A |
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xfNetLink Java |
<Program Files> \ Synergex \ xfNLJava |
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xfNetLink .NET |
<Program Files> \ Synergex \ xfNLNET |
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xfODBC Client |
<Program Files> \ Synergex \ SynergyDE \ Connect |
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HTML local documentation |
<Program Files> \ Synergex \ SynergyDE \ Documentation |
Default components for Synergy/DE installations
The following components are installed by default in a new Synergy/DE installation. If you do not wish to install the default components, you must do a full UI installation and select the components you want to install.
- Core Components
- Professional Series Development Environment
- Connectivity Series
- xfSeries (except when 32-bit Synergy/DE is installed on a 64-bit system)
- Files for shared installation (Windows Server only)
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If you do not require some of the default components, but don’t want to do a full UI installation, you can install the default components and then license only the ones you need. |
