Re: Portability and MDI Application

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:23:21 -0400
Message-ID:
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<rishabh.saxena.iitd@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1184933103.238069.167340@m3g2000hsh.googlegroups.com

  I am creating an application using MS Visual C++ 6.0 and MFC
(AppWizard exe). But when I run its debug version in other computers
where Visual Studio is not installed, its gives an error on startup
(Linking to MFC42D.dll failed).


You should a) build a Release build for distribution, rather than a
Debug build, and b) distribute MFC DLLs you rely on with your
application - they are not part of the OS and are not guaranteed to be
installed on the user's machine. Alternatively, you can link to MFC
statically: Project | Settings | General | Microsoft Foundation Classes
= Use MFC in a Static Library; Project | Settings | C/C++ | Code
Generation | Use run-time library = [Debug Multithreaded for debug build
/ Multithreaded for release build].
--
With best wishes,
    Igor Tandetnik

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