Just wanted to see if anyone has tackled the situation of providing additional support files/packages when distrubuting a strategy/indicator.
To explain, here is a scenario.
1. I created a strategy that reference custom dll's.
2. The dll's require additional support libraries/packages, namely Microsoft Visual C++ Redistro packages
3. In order for the strategy to operate on other users machines, they will be require to manually install the additional support packages.(in addition to importing the strategy into Nijatrader)
In order to facilitate this "overall" installation, I plan to create a separate "setup" program that will automatically do all of the installation work for the users. This would really be of benefit because the majority of target users are not computer savy. I am very certain that we will be getting 1000s of help calls LOL.
Are there any examples (whatever they may be) where this has been accompllished?
The idea is to create a program/script that will "import" the strategy assembly and install the required packages automatically.
Auto installing the packages is not an issue, but will Ninjatrader recognize the strategy dll when "imported" via an external program?
Any info would be greatly appreciated
Jess
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