Ivanov, Alexey A wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 1:41 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [build] Downloading dependencies
Tim Ellison wrote:
Ivanov, Alexey A wrote:
In default installation WinXP does not have this library in
system32.
This library is installed by Visual Studio 2003 and may be installed
by
other software which was compiled with Visual Studio 2003 (which is
v7.1). Visual Studio 2002 (v7.0) has msvc70.dll, if I remember
correctly.
That is it may happen system lacks for this DLL. And Microsoft
recommends avoiding copying DLLs to system32 when installing an
application. Thus we better distribute this DLL in snapshots and
further
releases because users may not have it.
On the other hand, if a person has Microsoft compiler installed, the
DLL
will most likely be in system32.
That's it.
Agreed -- we were getting that DLL so we could distribute it to our
users who may not have the compiler installed.
If we think it is more reliable to grab the DLL from system32/ than
download it we can do that. I guess we look for a env var to figure
out
where windows is installed...
Ok - so we seem to be agreed that :
1) We can't count on it being on a user's machine
2) We don't need to download it because it will be part of the tool
chain
3) We need to then find it.
Could we do something like
GetModuleFileName(LoadLibrary(....), buffer, size);
I guess it will work. But this should be in an application and the DLL
must be available in PATH so that LoadLibrary is able to load it.
I think it's easier just to copy it from system32 folder right from
build.xml. If a user is going to compile Harmony on Windows, they need
Microsoft compiler installed and thus they will have the DLL in
system32.
I thought it wasn't guaranteed to be there, even if MSVC installed? if
that's not the case - if it is actually guaranteed to be there - then
yes, I agree
geir
Regards,
Alexey.
to figure it out?
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Alexey A. Ivanov
Intel Enterprise Solutions Software Division
