Creating a Virtual Machine Distribution

If your IDL Virtual Machine application is intended to be run by users who have IDL installed (with or without an IDL license), you do not need to create an IDL distribution. Simply package up your application files (.sav files and any necessary data files) and distribute them to your users along with instructions describing how to install and launch the application.

If your application will be run by users who do not already have an IDL installation, or who do not have the proper IDL version, you can create and distribute a runtime application distribution. Runtime distributions are created using the MAKE_RT procedure; the process is described in detail in Creating a Runtime Distribution.