Re: I can't run my MFC app: MFC71.dll missing

From:

"Tom Serface" <tserface@msn.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Wed, 6 Sep 2006 10:05:56 -0700

Message-ID:

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We always take the approach of looking for a newer file with the same name
and then installing only if it looks like it's not already there. For times
when we think we may interrupt someone else's install, we just install our
own version of the DLL in our program folder which seems to work nicely.
Install programs like InstallShield have options to do this sort of thing
easily.

Tom

"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
news:mvrtf2phj5b5b4gsqvdo41cro8pc6tcpj3@4ax.com...

Yeah, that sounds like exactly what would be expected. You are probably
living in a world
in which you think that "copy" is sufficient for installing a program, and
that hasn't
been true for about 15 years. You need to use an installer, which will
assure that all of
the required DLLs are installed.

You don't need to "register" MFC71.DLL, you only need to make sure it, and
perhaps a dozen
others, are on the machine (static linking can work to eliminate the MFC
and CRT DLLs, but
it won't handle the other dozen).

VS.NET comes with an option to build an installer job and create an
install image, and you
have to use that.
joe