Tim Ellison wrote:
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...
Ok - so we seem to be agreed that :
1) We can't count on it being on a user's machine
2) We don't need to download it because it will be part of the tool chain
3) We need to then find it.
Could we do something like
GetModuleFileName(LoadLibrary(....), buffer, size);
to figure it out?
