On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Sune Foldager <sune.folda...@me.com> wrote: > I haven't really kept in touch with how the installer is progressing, > but are we distributing msvc runtimes now by merging in the appropriate > microsoft redistributable installer?
They're live, and yes we do. Both the CRT merge module and their policy file which redirects requests for older CRT versions to the ones that we ship. > In that case, it'll be necessary to put manifests in the various > pyd-files being shipped, since Python don't have that (they have it in > the main dlls). Otherwise, programs loading a different versions of the > msvc runtime can cause mercurial to fail. This can depend on what > programs you have installed on the machine, with dlls in the path. > > Not sure if we already do this; in that case, disregard please :) > > The manifest I put in(for python 2.6, vc2008) is: > > <?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.VC90.CRT" > version="9.0.21022.8" processorArchitecture="x86" > publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b"></assemblyIdentity> > </dependentAssembly> > </dependency> > </assembly> > > We just put in into all pyd files in dist, using mt.exe (resource 2), > before building the installer itself. Someone should double-check, but I could swear I see the mt tool running on the Mercurial C extensions when we compile them with thg-winbuild. I suppose it's trivial to check after the fact. -- Steve Borho ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-develop mailing list Tortoisehg-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-develop
