>-----Original Message----- >From: Tim Ellison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 12:38 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [build] Downloading dependencies > >Ivanov, Alexey A wrote: >> In default installation WinXP does not have this library in system32. >> This library is installed by Visual Studio 2003 and may be installed by >> other software which was compiled with Visual Studio 2003 (which is >> v7.1). Visual Studio 2002 (v7.0) has msvc70.dll, if I remember >> correctly. >> >> That is it may happen system lacks for this DLL. And Microsoft >> recommends avoiding copying DLLs to system32 when installing an >> application. Thus we better distribute this DLL in snapshots and further >> releases because users may not have it. >> >> On the other hand, if a person has Microsoft compiler installed, the DLL >> will most likely be in system32. >> >> That's it. > >Agreed -- we were getting that DLL so we could distribute it to our >users who may not have the compiler installed. > >If we think it is more reliable to grab the DLL from system32/ than >download it we can do that. I guess we look for a env var to figure out >where windows is installed...
Yeah, I posted the code in a thread around this problem... The path to DLL should be %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\msvc71.dll Regards, Alexey. > >Regards, >Tim -- Alexey A. Ivanov Intel Enterprise Solutions Software Division
