----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Hooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I stuck a copy of it up at http://freenetproject.org/snapshots/mfc70.zip > (it > > may need to be unzipped into the windows directory). This weekend I'll see > > what i can do getting it to installer without actaully having everyone > > downloading it every time they update. > > I'm under the impression that Windows 2000, Windows ME and Windows XP regard > MFCxx (and MSVCRT and MSVCPxx and MSVCIRT, etc) as system files which can > only be installed (correctly) as part of the system service pack or hotfix > procedure. > It is not 1997 any more - you cannot just tell users to "unzip this > Microsoft DLL into C:\Windows\System and see if that fixes the problem". > > I therefore also believe that releasing code built with MSVC7 will imply a > dependency on the end-user installing either a very recent service pack OR > the .net libraries. > > This is not a good situation. Either release the MSVC6 builds (almost all > users will have the necessary MFC DLLs for that - Windows2000, ME and XP all > install the necessary system files for MSVC6 releases anyway) or do static > builds. If it can be worked out, i would like to go that route. It can be, i believe. > > I hate microsoft, really i do. > > I'm adding http://freenetproject.org/snapshots/msvcr70.zip . same > directions > > with this as mfc70.zip > > NO NO NO, it sounds more like you just don't understand them. > Actually, what does redist.txt (installed with msvc7) say? (I genuinely > don't know the answer to this, as I don't have msvc7, but I'll bet money it > doesn't say "please distribute our dlls as .zip files and ask the end users > to unzip them into the windows partition" anywhere) It says the files can be redistributed and the file they are in. That is about it. > d -Mathew _______________________________________________ support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
