Ori Pessach wrote: > No - I get the goal of the project. What I'm not clear about is where to > draw the line between system components and application components. Is > msvcrt.dll shipped with Windows, or with Windows applications?
It does come with recent Windows. However, many programs install an updated version of msvcrt.dll, since it is a redistributable for Microsoft Visual Studio 5 and 6. Visual Studio 7 has switched to msvcr70.dll et. al. As of Windows XP, msvcrt.dll is part of the operating system. It is now under system file protection, so it cannot be replaced by a normal application. Apparently as a tribute to this, they changed the description from "Microsoft (R) C Runtime Library" to "Windows NT CRT DLL". Some programs that don't depend on having fixes in a certain version of msvcrt.dll will depend on the version from Windows; this includes most programs developed with VC6 specifically for Windows XP, and all programs developed with recent versions of the MinGW Win32 port of GCC. Therefore, we really do need a complete msvcrt.dll in Wine.
