On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:27 PM,  <clin...@elemtech.com> wrote:
>
> Here's my (not so complete) understanding...
> Public assemblies are searched before private ones.
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa374224(v=vs.85).aspx
>
> So, on your machine, you have the required CRT libraires in the winsxs folder.
> You also have a redirection that says to use a newer CRT library if a 
> particular older one is requested.
>
> If another machine that you copy this software to doesn't have a shared CRT 
> that will work, it falls back to the one you copied next to your application.
>
> So its a way to get updates and bug fixes to the CRT via windows updates, but 
> still allow your application to work on older machines without the newer 
> dlls, by using the ones you provided.
>
> Clint
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Yes, I think part of the issue is what is mentioned and I do have
>> plugins (Qt based) and have taken the steps he lays out. But I am
>> still curious as to why Dependency Walker says it is using one
>> version of the runtime libraries when the Manifest (both external
>> and embedded) says to use another. I am probably just missing
>> something basic in all of this.
>>
>> ___________________________________________________________
>> Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net
>> Principal Software Engineer       mike.jack...@bluequartz.net
>> BlueQuartz Software               Dayton, Ohio
>>
>> On Aug 9, 2011, at 3:07 PM, Michael Wild wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue 09 Aug 2011 06:48:34 PM CEST, Michael Jackson wrote:
>> >> Not sure if this is a CMake issue or not but I'll give it a shot.
>> >> I am packaging up my application using CPack (zip) and all seems
>> >> fine. I get the MSVC runtime libraries copied and the manifest
>> >> file created and all seems to run just fine. If I use Dependency
>> >> Walker to look at exactly _which_ C/C++ runtime DLLs are being
>> >> loaded it seems to indicate a newer version than what the
>> >> manifest is saying. My Application seems to be requesting version
>> >> 9.0.21022.8 in its manifest and in the executable itself
>> >> (Embedded Manifest) but Dependency Walker says it is really
>> >> loading the 9.0.30729.490 version from the winsxs folder. I am
>> >> still really new to this with Visual Studio so I am not sure if I
>> >> am doing something incorrect when writing the CPack code,
>> >> something in Visual Studio, how I compiled all the dependent
>> >> libraries or what but any help or pushes in a better direction
>> >> would be greatly appreciated.
>> >>
>> >> System: Windows 7 X64 Pro. Visual Studio 2008. Compiling
>> >> everything as 64 bit. The actual executables can be downloaded
>> >> from http://dream3d.bluequartz.net.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks in advance.
>> >
>> >
>> > Not sure, but could it be the issue mentioned in Bills blog?
>> >
>> > http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/4
>> >
>> > Michael
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Thanks for this pointer, Clinton. I'll add a comment to Bill's blog
article that also points to this Microsoft page... Good reference.

:-)
David
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