Re: How to do Windows builds?

Mark Banner <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.directory
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Rich Megginson wrote:
> I'm using Windows Visual Studio 8 (cl.exe version 14.00.xxxx).  When 
> linking with the standard c library msvcrt.lib (/MD), the implementation 
> for this is now in msvcr80.dll.  So far I have not been able to figure 
> out a way to have it just use msvcrt.dll instead.  According to Google 
> and my msdn research, we have a couple of options:
> 1) Link with /MD and distribute msvcr80.dll with binary ldap c sdk 
> distributions
> 2) Statically link in msvcrt using /MT

Taking a leaf out of Firefox's book (and Thunderbird etc), they ship the 
MSVC8 runtime libs with the installer:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324690

and

http://mxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/build/win32/Makefile.in

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