No worries. The ZIP you provided appears to work fine. I uninstalled the VC redistributable and verified that the old package failed again, and then tried the new one, which worked. I'll let you know if I notice anything else.
Thanks for the quick action, guys! Jason -----Original Message----- From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:warmer...@pobox.com] Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 7:42 PM To: Jason Roberts Cc: 'Philippe Vachon'; gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] GDAL 1.6.0 DLL Hell problem on Windows Vista? Jason Roberts wrote: > Phil, > > Thanks for the suggestion. I suspect it will work. My XP SP3 machine has > VC90 entries in C:\Windows\WinSxS, while my Vista SP1 machine does not. > > But if GDAL requires the user to install the VC++ redistributable first, why > is GDAL redisting the DLLs (e.g. msvcr90.dll) in the GDAL\bin directory? I > suspect the intent was to override sxs in the build process, or specify a > publisher policy, or something, so that the user does not have to install > the redistributable themselves. The idea being that GDAL would work like > old-school, pre-sxs applications, where you just have to have the right DLL > versions in the same directory as your .exe. > > Was that not the intent? Are users indeed expected to install that > redistributable first? Jason, My fault. The package includes the required VC9 DLLs, but I neglected to include the manifest for them (Microsoft.VC90.CRT.manifest). I have repackaged the kit with that manifest, and I'd appreciate your testing it. http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/win32/1.6/gdalwin32exe160.zip Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ -- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmer...@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev