Re: [Audacity-devel] wxWindows 2.3.3 Audacity build changes on Windows

[Otto W. <ott...@bl...>]

> > Why has wxWindows be build with "Debug Multithreaded" instead of the standard
> > "Debug Multithreaded DLL"?
> 
> Good question.
> 
> [Debug] Multithreaded DLL means that a program will be dynamically
> linked to the Microsoft C Runtime library, i.e. the program depends on
> a particular DLL and will not run without it.  This makes the program
> smaller in size, but unfortunately it is not at all uncommon for Windows
> systems to have missing, damaged, or incompatible DLLs.  One of the
> early versions of Audacity was compiled using Visual C++ 6.0 on Windows
> ME, and it would not run on many Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT
> systems.  We got dozens of complaints a month.
> 
Thanks for the comprehensive answer. Shouldn't this brought up in the wxWindows
developers list?

O. Wyss

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