Deploying Cross-Platform Applications

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Deployment can have two different meanings in RAD Studio:

• Deployment is a required step that the IDE automatically performs when you run your cross-platform application in the debugger.

  When you run or debug a cross-platform application, the application is deployed to the target platform. Make sure that the IDE is connected to the target platform whenever you run or debug. The application must have an associated remote profile, and the Platform Assistant must be installed and running on the target platform.

• Deployment is the final step that you perform in successfully delivering any completed project.

  To deploy applications that use the Platform Assistant and a remote profile, you can use the Deployment Manager. Click Project > Deployment.

Deploying an Application on the Mac OS X Platform

Each time you run or debug a Mac OS X application, your application is deployed to the target platform in order to run. The files that are deployed are placed by default in the PAServer scratch directory, which is inside the directory where paserver is installed on the target platform.

When you are ready to deploy your completed Mac OS X application, the recommended way to assemble and group the necessary files is to use the Deployment Manager. Your deployed Mac OS X application is not just the executable, but includes a set of object files and shared libraries (.dylibs).

See Also

• Deploying Applications Overview
• Deployment Manager