Hi Andreas,
It appears that redistributing applications built with Visual Studio
2005 Express is difficult to do. Take a look at the 'Visual C++ 2005
Express Edition' section of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio_Express . It
explains that the Visual C++ Redistributables are not included with the
express edition and cannot be downloaded from Microsoft. This means
the application can only be run on other machines that have the express
edition installed.
It may be possible to use ClickOnce to deploy the application as
described at
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235287(VS.80).aspx .
Hope this helps,
Mike
Andreas Goebel wrote:
Hi,
I have cut down the problem a bit. It´s all about including the right
manifest-files.
Now a strange problem occurs: The osgDB - manifest (which is included
in the dll, but can be seen in the build-folder) looks like this:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes'?>
<assembly xmlns='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1' manifestVersion='1.0'>
<dependency>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity type='win32' name='Microsoft.VC80.CRT'
version='8.0.50608.0' processorArchitecture='x86'
publicKeyToken='1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b' />
</dependentAssembly>
</dependency>
</assembly>
but the manifest for Microsoft.VC80.CRT looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
<noInheritable></noInheritable>
<assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="Microsoft.VC80.CRT"
version="8.0.50727.42"
(...)
indicating that the dll I actually use is slightly newer.
Usually all the manifests and dlls reside in windows/WinSxS , but it
is possible to distribute the manifests locally in the
application-folder. But if I do so, I get an error that the versions
do not match.
If I change the version by hand (to match ...) the application starts,
but the plugins do not load (leading to the ugly builtin font, for
instance).
I tried to build the osg statically, but this seems to be a big task
... sigh ..
Has anyone made an installer distributing the osg and an application
together with all that manifest-stuff? Why does the osgDB-manifest use
a different version from what I actually have on my system?
Thanks for any help. I just hate this stuff. I have a nice application
running on my computer just smoothly, but cannot distribute it because
of all this stuff ...
Regards,
Andreas
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