Re: App local deployment with VC 2010
"David Webber" <dave@musical-dot-demon-dot-co.uk> wrote in message
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(It still reports the missing system DLLs, but the exe runs fine in situ,
where it was built with VS 2010, both from the IDE and by launching the
exe without the IDE. Not sure how that happens?)
Dependency Walker is not foolproof. I've seen it complain about some IE
related file that is missing but if you google that error, everyone says
just ignore it. So I'm not sure what the root cause is.
However some old files are still in the folder:
Microsoft.V90.MFC.manifest and Microsoft.V90.CRT.manifest which are all to
do with with the old versions of the DLLs, which are supposedly no longer
used. (Though mfc90u.dll and the 9.0 CRT *are* in the folder for
historical reasons). But if I delete the manifest files and try to run the
program - bingo! All sorts of message boxes pop up telling me I'm not
loading DLLs properly. Looks like its's trying to use v9.0 of MFC and CRT
despite what dependency walker says. I thought the VS 2010 conversion of
the project would have changed that, and dependency walker seemed to
thinks so.
Confused!
Sounds like some module of yours is still relying on VC9, be in a static
library or other dependency. Since the contents of a manifest are stored in
a built .exe/.dll as text, it's simple to search all your .exe's and .dll's
for some string in the VC9 manifest, such as "Microsoft.VC90.CRT" and see
what is the offending module.
-- David
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