Re: Static linking to MFC/CRT and Standard C++ libraries
"Dilip" <rdilipk@lycos.com> wrote in message
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I am in the process of writing a tiny MFC application (developed on
Visual Studio 2008) that (for reasons that are too confusing to list)
cannot rely on the appropriate redistributables present on the target
machine. I cannot do the obvious thing of shipping the
redistributables along with application. Please lets not get into the
why of it because I am stuck in a weird situation.
As a result my only option is statically link against everything. To
that end my application statically links against MFC. So far so
good. However, I also use a lot of standard C++ features (including
stuff from tr1). I understand at run time my application is going to
go looking for msvcr90.dll and msvcp90.dll, correct? How do I
statically link against CRT and Std C++ libraries? I gather their
static counterparts are libcmt.lib and libcpmt.lib, right? Is it just
a question of putting these in the linker settings?
How can I achieve my objective?
The setting to statically link to the runtime is in Project, Properties,
C/C++, Code Generation, Runtime Library.
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