Re: [Chromium-users] Solution: Chromium on Windows: MSVCR80D.dll file not found

[Brian P. <bri...@tu...>]

David L. Page wrote:
> 
> I have finally solved the issue with using Chromium on MSVC8 (at least 
> with my platform). The main problem seems to be with manifests and dlls. 
> I am not fully familiar with Microsoft manifests, but it seems that when 
> the app faker trys to spawn a process, not all dlls are found (i.e. 
> atlantis.exe is unable to link with MSVCR80D.dll).
>  
> The solution that I have found to work is to embedded the manifest 
> information into the atlantis.exe (or any opengl app that app faker 
> spawns). Here's the DOS command line that I used for atlantis.exe.
>  
> C:\cr-1.0\bin\WIN_NT>mt.exe -manifest atlantis.exe.manifest 
> -outputresource:atlantis.exe;1
>  
> The following MSDN link is probably more useful:
>  
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235591(VS.80).aspx
>  
> I'm not sure how to force embedding manifests during compile/link, but 
> it would seem to be the obvious next step.

If you could boil this info down into some patches for the Chromium 
docs, I'll commit them to CVS.

-Brian