On 18/03/2008, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin, can you comment? It looks like the 3.0 installer uses 2 copies > > of msvcr90.dll, where the 2.6 one doesn't. I would have thought that > > only one is necessary, but Gregor's experiments seem to demonstrate > > otherwise. > > I haven't figured it out myself; it's a complete mess, and Microsoft > is heavily wasting our time. > > It seems that you absolutely *must* have the manifest file in each > directory that has a DLL which links with the CRT. Whether or not > separate copies of the DLL are then also necessary, and whether or > not that causes two copies to be loaded into the address space, > I don't know. HELP!!!!
I'll see if I can wade through the documentation and offer any help. > To reproduce the problem, you probably have to test on a machine > which doesn't have the CRT redistributable installed centrally > (neither through VS 2008 installation, nor by running the > standalone CRT installer, nor by having installed any other software > that provides an SxS copy of the CRT). That shouldn't be hard - I'll set up a Windows virtual machine with no additional software on it and can use that for testing. If you want me to try anything out, let me know and I can do so in a guaranteed clean environment. Paul. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
