you need to run with the same build version of dlls as what the ide is using.

you must install the 19R3 dlls on the users's machine to run your app

Yes.

You should distribute PB 2019 R3 dll's to run an executable built with R3 and R2 dll's to run an executable built using R2. Also have in mind that in PB 2019 R3 all runtime files are not indicating the version of pb in their names. This was an enhancement related to decoupling ide from runtime and supporting different versions of the runtime (but only R3 runtimes - this is not available for previous releases). After that change pbvm190.dll is now renamed to pbvm.dll and is located to a different location than in previous versions. Example, in my computer I do have the following runtimes installed:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Appeon\Common\PowerBuilder\Runtime 19.2.0.2670
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Appeon\Common\PowerBuilder\Runtime 19.2.0.2703
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Appeon\Common\PowerBuilder\Runtime 19.2.0.2728

When I work in an application through the IDE, I can choose wihch runtime to use to deploy my application.

Attention, this is a global setting, it will affect the IDE, so it means from the moment you change that value you have to restart the IDE, and from that point it will use the selected runtime version.

When building an exe you have to deploy that specific runtime for your application.

You can evaluate powerclient feature in pb 2019 r3 to make that work easier.

Andreas.

Hi Stan;

  Note that with R3, you must now deploy the new <AppName>.XML file that the IDE project generates with your new EXE. Both the XML file and EXE must also be deployed into the same deployment machine's folder.

HTH

Regards ... Chris