Re: How to do Windows builds?

Mark Banner wrote:
> 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
> 
> Standard8

Thanks Mark.  It looks pretty straightforward to add this code to the 
ldap c sdk build.  So are we agreed?  Option 1?