#1891: wingrass: background dosbox from regular wxgui startup
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Reporter: hamish | Owner: grass-dev@…
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: blocker | Milestone: 6.4.3
Component: Default | Version: svn-releasebranch64
Keywords: wingrass | Platform: MSWindows 7
Cpu: x86-64 |
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Comment(by hamish):
Replying to [comment:44 neteler]:
> ... I omitted to say that I have done this only during the last but
> one personal test round. Originally there was no need to install
> these DLLs at all on my Win8 box. Hence uninstallation of GRASS should
not
> have changed that situation.
>
> /me confused
older development versions of the installer were quietly shipping the MS
visual runtime dlls, and copying them to $GISBASE/extralib/ every time.
that is not allowed by the license, so a couple of weeks ago it was
changed to download them instead, at the user's request. so it depends if
your last install was older than a couple of weeks ago or not.
they were probably never installed system-wide on your computer, and
disappeared and reappeared within the current $GISBASE with every
uninstall and reinstall.
it also seems that in the last month or two there was another change in
the situation when whoever builds either python.exe &/or the osgeo4w stack
switched to a newer development environment which wanted the new msvcr100
dlls, while older programs shipping with those tools still want the older
versions of the runtime dlls.
the root of all this fun of course is that Microsoft makes them a standard
part of their compiler builds, but doesn't ship them as standard OS
libraries, and then makes installing them later by the end-user a total
pain in the neck. but there's not much we can do about that.
Hamish
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1891#comment:45>
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