Re: Can we use dlls build with VS2005 with old apps?
yevvi@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi,
I found out that my dlls didnt contain manifest embedded in them, but
instead had .manifest files in the same directory. I embeded those
manifests into the dlls by running mt.exe /manifest file.dll.manifest
/outputresource:file.dll.
Unfortunately it still doesn't fix the problem. One thing i saw is
that .manifest files specify different version of runtime libraries
from the one installed in WinSxS folder. I tried to edit manifest
files to include the installed version instead, but it still doesn't
help. Would different versions cause problems? Anything else i might
be doing wrong?
The "wrong" version in the manifest file is correct. There's a policy file
in the WinSxS directory that directs that version to the correct, finaly
verion of the DLLs.
You're probably embeddeing the manifest in the DLL with the wrong resource
ID. When embedded in an EXE, the manifest must have resource ID 1, but when
embedded in a DLL the ID must be 2.
See this thread for details:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vc/msg/e84703d4e19aa831?hl=en
-cd
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