Mathias Michaelis wrote:
Hello Vim List
I have a similar problem with the final vim 7.0, if I try to compile
it with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition. I don't get a
runtime error, but simply get no Edit with vim ... context menu
entries when I right-click on any file.
Solution to this problem partly depends on a Windows version you have.
When I right click on a file in explorer I get an MSVC Runtime error
dialog:
msvcr80.dll is the problem, but it isn't that the dll is missing,
gvimext.dll loads it from c:\windows\system32. The problem is that
gvimext.dll is loading the dll incorrectly (according to the error
dialog). Obviously the source for gvimext.dll hasn't changed in a
while, but I believe this means that the gvimext.dll can't be built
against VC 8.0 until this problem is resolved. :/
Starting from Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2003, msvcr80.dll should be
loaded from C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\directory for the correct version of
MSVCR 8.0\msvcr80.dll. At least runtime linker now uses this
approach. This is part of Windows Side by Side Components subsystem.
Try copying src\GvimExt\gvimext.dll.manifest to wherever you've placed
gvimext.dll.
This would not work - DLLs does not use manifest files. For a DLL
manifest should be embedded as a resource inside the DLL itself.
This was the first thing I tried. Then I checked with Dependency
Walker and saw that MSVCR80.DLL was now found. But in spite of
that: I got no context menus.
This also happened to me - Dependency Walker reported that DLL could be
found, but runtime linker fails to load the DLL. Maybe, Dependency
Walker does not load a DLL, just checks that it could be found using
algorithm, that is outdated.
Then I tried
mt -outputresource:gvimext.dll -manifest gvimext.dll.manifest
to include the dll into the resources of gvimext.dll. That helped
nothing.
To include the manifest as a resource into the dll? I don't know
exactly why this was not working for you - maybe your manifest was wrong
or maybe it was included with wrong resource id.
Then I tried to add a file/file session to gvimext.dll.manifest:
file name=gvimext.dll
comClass
description=VIM Editor Context Menu Handler
clsid={51EEE242-AD87-11d3-9C1E-0090278BBD99}
threadingModel=Apartment/
/file
Helped nothing, independent of running mt.exe or not.
I am searching for solutions for days now, browsed all the msdn
library, but found nothing: gvimext.dll doesn't work when linked
against MSVCR80.DLL with Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition.
This issue is explained in MSDN in section about SxS - Side by Side
Components. I've attached patch against current GvimExt/gvimext.rc that
would make resource compiler add manifest inside generated DLL - this is
what is required to make it run on WinXP SP2 and Win2k3. And you'll
have to put these two manifests in GvimExt directory, resource compiler
would embed one of them depending on build type.
The only workaround is: I have to link gvimext.dll statically
against the C runtime library. Then, gvimext.dll needs about five
times more space on disk, but like that the context menu entries
appear although I hardly can't believe it any more %-]
Thanks in advance for any suggestions or hints!
With best regards
Mathias
In case you compile and link gvimext.dll on Windows with installed
Visual Studio 2005, then it automatically links DLL with the most recent
version of MSVCR - 8.0. This version is installed during VS 2005
installation. So, you would not be able to run this DLL on any other
version of Windows, without installing new version of MSVCR. There is a
redistributable for this, on comes with VS 2005 itself. VS 2005 even
knows when it is required and can automatically (at least sometimes)
merge this redistributable when you are creating an installation inside
VS 2005.
?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes'?
assembly xmlns='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1' manifestVersion='1.0'
dependency
dependentAssembly
assemblyIdentity type='win32' name='Microsoft.VC80.DebugCRT' version='8.0.50608.0' processorArchitecture='x86' publicKeyToken='1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b' /
/dependentAssembly
/dependency
/assembly
?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes'?
assembly xmlns='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1' manifestVersion='1.0'
dependency
dependentAssembly
assemblyIdentity type='win32' name='Microsoft.VC80.CRT' version='8.0.50608.0' processorArchitecture='x86' publicKeyToken='1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b' /
/dependentAssembly
/dependency
/assembly
Index: gvimext.rc
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RCS file: /cvsroot/vim/vim7/src/GvimExt/gvimext.rc,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -c -r1.2 gvimext.rc
*** gvimext.rc 6 Mar 2006 23:16:53 - 1.2
--- gvimext.rc 21 Mar 2006 22:49:44 -
***
*** 2,7
--- 2,14
//
#include resource.h
+ #include winver.h
+ #if
