Michael, it has been discussed several times and it is in bug tracker - for now I put the info on my course website so that students don't miss it and that has so far helped to avoid the complaints from the students http://courses.ncsu.edu/mea582/common/GIS_anal_assign/GIS_Anal_Aintro.html
Also, it is actually right on top of the MS-Windows installer packages webpage http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/ms-windows/ perhaps it would be useful to put there "if you are getting a message about missing MSVCR71.dll" Helena Helena Mitasova Associate Professor Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences 2800 Faucette Drive, Rm. 1125 Jordan Hall North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8208 [email protected] "All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties.” On Mar 5, 2013, at 5:01 PM, Michael Barton wrote: > Here is a problem one of my students encountered installing GRASS for Windows. > > It is a problem that happens very often. It is not a GRASS problem per se, > but it would be nice if we could solve it. Failing that, could we post on the > WIKI or somewhere the solution to fixing the insidious missing DLL problem. > Maybe even post a link to the fix on the GRASS for Windows download page. > Then I could just send people there instead of having to ask on the list (or > try to find if I kept the last email of someone who answered before). > > Thanks > Michael > ______________________________ > C. Michael Barton > Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity > Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change > Arizona State University > Tempe, AZ 85287-2402 > USA > > voice: > 480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-727-9746 (CSDC) > fax: 480-965-7671(SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC) > www: > http://csdc.asu.edu, http://shesc.asu.edu > http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Laura Swantek <[email protected]> >> Subject: problem installing new version of Grass >> Date: March 5, 2013 2:12:09 PM MST >> To: C Barton <[email protected]> >> >> Hi Michael, >> I tried to update my version of Grass and keep getting the message below. >> I've re-installed the program several times and keep getting this message. >> I have no idea what MSVCP100.dll is so I don't know where to start to solve >> the problem. Help, please! >> >> >> >> <image.png> >> >> Thank you! >> Laura >> >> -- >> Laura A. Swantek >> Graduate Student >> Ceramic Rehydroxylation Dating, Research Assistant >> School of Human Evolution and Social Change >> Arizona State University >> Tempe, AZ 85287 > _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
