Re: [sleuthkit-users] Windows Precompiled EXEs

[Danilo M. <da...@gm...>]

Hi.

I choose the option (1).


2016-10-11 17:59 GMT-03:00 Brian Carrier <ca...@sl...>:

> As was mentioned in another thread, we’re looking at having The Sleuth Kit
> use a more modern Visual Studio compiler.  I need some feedback on how
> people are using the precompiled EXEs that we ship.
>
> One of the big changes is that executables now depend on a lot more
> official microsoft dlls (C runtime dlls).
>
> Historically, I’ve always tried to make it be so that you can open a ZIP
> file with the EXEs and run them with no prerequisites. We did this by
> shipping the 2 or 3 run time dlls in the same folder as the exes.
>
> With Visual Studio 2015, there are over 40 dlls, not 2!   So, there are
> two options:
>
> 1) We copy all 40+ dlls into the folder like we did before and it is now
> just a bit more work to find the exe tools in there among all of the dlls
> (they are all similarly named, which makes it somewhat easy).
>
> 2) We make the user run a Microsoft Redistributable Installer to install
> the needed dlls into the c:\windows folder if they are not already there.
> We can then ship a ZIP file and the user has to know to install the MS
> redist or we start shipping a TSK installer that also installs the MS
> redist.
>
>
> Opinions?    Do people care more about prerequisites or big folders?
>
>
>
>
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