RE: [Mingw-users] _cgetws

[Wells, R. K. <ROG...@sa...>]

FWIW, I am running WinXP Pro, SP2 and have msvcr71.dll but not msvcr80.dll

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-----Original Message-----
From: min...@li...
[mailto:min...@li...] On Behalf Of Chris Wilson
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 6:50 AM
To: min...@li...
Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] _cgetws

Hi Brian,

>> Does anyone know a better way to only detect import libraries where the 
>> real library actually exists?
>
> I always thought that the implicit solution for this was that you should 
> only have import libraries installed for libraries that you actually 
> have installed (i.e. the DLL exists.)  So the right solution here would 
> be to delete libmsvcr71.a.

That's what I actually did, in the end, to get autoconf to detect the 
right one. Then I symlinked all my runtime DLLs into 
/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/lib.

> But that gets into a whole other area.  You say that you don't have 
> msvcr71.dll on your system, but you do have msvcr80.dll.  Well, I have 
> both a win98 and a win2k system, both of which contain a msvcr71.dll but 
> neither has a msvcr80.dll.  But my main XP system has all of them.

That's interesting. I'm working on a win2k system and it does not have 
msvcr71.dll. Perhaps it came with an application, like m$ office or visual 
studio 2003?

> These are not system DLLs - their presence will be a side effect of
> installing some MS service pack or third party software that happens to
> use them.

Actually it's Visual Studio 2005 Express. I expect that they will start to 
be more common on Windows systems, and maybe eventually distributed as 
standard. But point taken, I would prefer to use msvcr71.dll if I could 
find it.

> But none of this is the case with msvcrt.dll, which Microsoft long ago 
> declared part of the system instead of being a redistributable component 
> of their compiler.  So you can count on it being there, and you will 
> never have to worry about distributing it.  For this reason I think your 
> best bet would be to pretend that the newer versions of the library 
> don't exist, since their use necessitates distributing the MS DLL with 
> your program.

But it doesn't have _cgetws, which I really need. Back to square 1.

Cheers, Chris.
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