Alexey Petrenko wrote: > If this library exists in system32 then we do not need to download it > or do any additional search. Linker will do it for us. > So we can simple remove all mentions of this library from dependencies. > > But when I suggested this last time someone reported that he has MSVC > but does not have this library... This looks really strange.
That was me on a weird system so it might well be bogus information :-) > We can remove this dependency and look... :) +1 note: I can hardly help since I don't have all the software that I need to build harmony on windows. > SY, Alexey > > 2006/12/20, Leo Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Yes, actually we can just get MSVC71.dll from the system32 directory at >> least from XP, but as for other windows versions I am not sure the exact >> version of MSVC DLL. So is it ok if we do not explicitly get it but >> use it >> while linking by the search path of the os system just like other >> kernel32.dll? >> >> On 12/20/06, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: >> > > Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: >> > >> Do we really need to download this dll? Everyone who has the MSVC >> > >> installed should have it, right? >> > > >> > > I don't care if it's downloaded, linked or magically generated out of >> > > looking into tea leaves, the problem is that the build needs manual >> > > intervention and this is not documented anywhere. >> > > >> > > We need to make sure that what we say you need to do is *only* >> what you >> > > need to do. Every other (undocumented step) is annoying and slows our >> > > community development down. >> > >> > Yeah, I get it. My point is that I'm still not convinced we need this >> > to be downloaded... >> > >> > So do we? >> > >> > geir >> > >> > > >> > >> geir >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: >> > >>> Tim Ellison wrote: >> > >>>> Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: >> > >>>>> Mark Hindess wrote: >> > >>>>>> I tried doing fetch-depends before rebuild but it would fail or >> > >>>>>> corrupt >> > >>>>>> dependencies often enough that it caused more trouble than it >> > solved. >> > >>>>>> I can try it again I suppose - IIRC it was ibiblio that was the >> > main >> > >>>>>> problem and that might have been a temporary issue. >> > >>>>> People, you do realize that if fetch-depends breaks that often we >> > >>>>> have a >> > >>>>> bigger problem than just dealing with faulty updates? >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> Imagine that every time fetch-depends doesn't work we lose the >> > ability >> > >>>>> for some guy out there to contribute something to us. >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> This is, from a community building perspective, a *way* bigger >> > problem >> > >>>>> than if the JVM ran at all after it compiled!! >> > >>>> I remember the discussion over the msvcr71.dll download. Have >> there >> > been >> > >>>> other problems? >> > >>> it's still not fixed! >> > >>> >> > > >> > > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Leo Li >> China Software Development Lab, IBM >> >> -- Stefano.
