Thibault Genessay schrieb:
Hi Michael
On 4/10/07, *Michael Henheffer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
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.
This is wrong. You have many options:
- manually redistribute the required DLLs, of course after having
checked it can be redistributed. You can use a tool like the
Dependency Walker that ships with the Windows SDK or the commercial
editions of Visual Studio. This is not to recommend because of
licensing issues: it's hard to find which DLLs you have the right to
redistribute, even though msvcr80.dll and msvcp80.dll obviously can be
redistributed
- use merge modules. When it installs, Visual Studio adds its runtime
merge modules to the directory C:\program files\common files\merge
modules. You can redistribute the non debug version, named
policy_8_0_Microsoft_VC80_CRT_x86.msm. It contains the DLLs you want.
You must be using Windows Installer (or a compatible installer)
- download them directly from Microsoft - for free, indeed, whatever
wikipedia's activists can believe - at the following address:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=32bc1bee-a3f9-4c13-9c99-220b62a191ee&DisplayLang=en
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=32bc1bee-a3f9-4c13-9c99-220b62a191ee&DisplayLang=en>
The file is named vcredist_x86.exe and contains the 32 bits versions
of the DLLs, but specific packages exist for other architectures.
I'd recommend using an installer with the merge module, as you don't
have to install separate packages, but providing vcredist_x86.exe is
probably the most straightforward solution.
Thank you very much for the information and the link! I will consider
which way to go, but using the ms-installer seems to be very easy.
Regards,
Andreas
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