Thanks for the responses guys. I've changed it to statically link and it
seems to be working fine now. After doing some digging into the issues
surrounding this, it sure does seem like MS dropped the ball with Win32
SxS. *sigh*
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 9:55 AM
To: Bob Arnson; Mike Dimmick
Cc: [email protected]; Matthew Kowalski
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] VS2005 C++ and Custom Actions
We could get rid of the CRT dependencies and I used to do that work (had
to port over sprint to do it too, that was a pain). However, the new
CRT has a lot of really nice security checks built-in that I don't want
to try to port over. So, we static link the CRT now to get those
security features because dynamic linking is just suicide. In fact,
based on the (IMHO) failure that is Win32 SxS I think it is probably
really dangerous to use the CRT DLLs.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Arnson
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 21:33
To: Mike Dimmick
Cc: [email protected]; 'Matthew Kowalski'
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] VS2005 C++ and Custom Actions
Mike Dimmick wrote:
You should try to eliminate use of the CRT, if possible, and statically
link with it to remove the dependency on the CRT DLLs.
There's nothing wrong with using the CRT as long as you statically link.
The WiX custom actions should probably take the lead here and replace
calls to CRT functions with equivalent Windows functions, then replace
the CRT-supplied entry point function with a stub. This could well
reduce the size of the custom action DLLs.
Why? Unless we got rid of CRT dependencies entirely...
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