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

Hmm - I've looked at this quite a bit.  I still haven't figured out 
where those win32 redist files are supposed to be.  I've installed 
Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition, the platform SDK, and the .NET v2 
SDK, and I still do not have all of those files mentioned in the 
Makefile.in above.

I have these two folders:
C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.VC80.CRT_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.42_x-ww_0de06acd
and
C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.VC80.CRT_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.762_x-ww_6b128700

They both contain the 3 msvc*.dll files, but no manifest file.  The 
microsoft website says msvcr80.dll and the other redistributable files 
are supposed to be in a sub directory C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual 
Studio 8\VC\redist but I do not have that directory, nor have I been 
able to figure out which package provides it.

Alternately, MS provides a downloadable self-installing file for each 
platform - e.g. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=65127 - we could 
provide those for download, or just provide a link to the MS download 
site (if the license forbids us from putting the files on our site).

This is so irritating - why can MS just provide the darn file with the 
OS????