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Hi everyone,

I did this with Ranorex 6.2: Running Testcases without a Ranorex-Installation by copying the *.dll files from an installation's folder, etc, etc.. (can't find the corresponding post)-

On a first look this doesn't seem to work with Ranorex 7.0. Am I right? Are there any changes for 7.0 in order to run testcases without installation?

Best regards,
Andy

Hello Andymann,

Usually, this should still work.
Just copy all Ranorex DLL's from the "Program Files\Ranorex*\bin" to your output folder.
Afterwards, copy a valid floating license to your output folder.
So this folder should contain the following files:

Ranorex3_Server.lic
All dlls
test.exe

Please check if the prerequisites are installed on the machine where you want to execute Ranorex without a runtime installed. Therefore take a look at the following documentation http://www.ranorex.com/support/user-gui ... ments.html

regards,

qwertzu

Hi,

Just a small correction, the license file is Ranorex3_Server.lic and not Ranorex2_Server.lic. A detailed steps how to run tests without installing Ranorex is here:
http://www.ranorex.com/support/user-gui ... yment.html

qwertzu wrote: Afterwards, copy a valid floating license to your output folder.
So this folder should contain the following files:

Ranorex3_Server.lic
All dlls
test.exe

Hello,

Where do I find this file? So far,the only license I know of is when I input the server address on the Ranorex License manager.I also can't run anything on a machine without Ranorex ever since I upgraded to Ranorex 7.0.

Typically, it's located here: But it's hidden folder, so you may need to enable displaying "hidden items" in windows explorer.

Hello odklizec,

I already found the license file but instead it's in this folder: I forgot to mention that I am currently using a Windows 10 machine.
Thank you!

Hello again

I still can't run on the machine without ranorex installed i've already copied all dll's and also copied the ranorex license file.
This is the error:
[img]ranorex7_error.png[/img]

Unless there is a REALLY GOOD reason for not installing Ranorex, you should install it on the system using Ranorex-7.0.1.exe. This will ensure that everything is installed correctly.

There error you are seeing means that there is something missing from your system that Ranorex requires. Either this is a Ranorex file that you missed, or it's the prerequisites that you MUST install on the system anyway.

Looks to me as if one of the C++ Runtime Redistributable packages is missing, which is a prerequisite to running Ranorex. Most probably, the C++ 15 Runtime package, which is a new prerequisite since Ranorex 7.0.

Theoretically, you can also "extract" the contents of those packages and copy everything to the target bin directory (see this blog). However, this is a package delivered by Microsoft that we don't have influence on, so I can't say if this does work or will work in the future - so you are possibly better of to install this package. Furthermore, with 7.1 this will be the only C++ Runtime Redistributable package you need to install (currently, Ranorex 7.0 depends on 3 different versions; we are working on moving everything to one runtime version).

Regards,
Alex
Ranorex Team