Roger Binns a écrit : > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/05/2010 08:20 AM, noel frankinet wrote: > >>> I see windows 2000 as the finest os that redmont has produced. You'd >>> better not develop on the latest ms os if you want to have some >>> installed base. >>> > > Your opinion is fine, but someone has to bear the burden of supporting > increasingly outdated operating systems. For example I have a Mac running > OSX 10.3. The open source software I use (eg Firefox and Emacs) do not run > on it anymore because they were not willing to bear that burden. And pretty > much no one supports Windows 98 these days for the same reason. > Yes, but its a pity(windows 98 is another problem). I still use windows 2000 as my base point. I test on xp after that (but I progress, before it was watcom c++ and dos extender). > >>> I did not know that mingw was using msvcrt.dll. But anyway, its there, >>> in system directory, so it should run fine. >>> > > The thing you missed is that there is no one msvcrt.dll. There was one > version shipped with the operating system, then updated versions with new > functionality and bug fixes shipped with Microsoft compilers, service packs > and other updates. On install applications were placing whatever versions > they wanted into the system directory and not necessarily doing that right. > This is why it is possible for SQLite3.dll to work just fine on one system > but not another. > Yes I understand that. > With XP the dll became a protected system file and Windows went to great > lengths to ensure that any installer futzing with it would have the actions > reversed. Microsoft also started numbering the dll shipped with the C > compiler, and said applications should install the dll in their program > directory (which is searched first before system directories). They also > introduced sxs where the system managed multiple versions of dlls and that > whole mess. > > Yes I've seen that, and also exe that don't run because of double dependency > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side-by-side_assembly > > Consequently XP and later systems are far less likely to have problems with > incorrect msvcrt.dll. > My experience is the reverse, but luck maybe. Anyway thank you for your info, I wish you would have been there when I was pulling my hair with side by side assembly issue
Noël > Roger > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkwKhmIACgkQmOOfHg372QSszgCg4m6GBuZlfb6kVx4u32WHibAU > GcAAniDiHqlOfkDRrJGEuecucH73Umja > =2OwY > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
