Re: which operating systems support MFC71*.dlls ?

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"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Of the over two dozen DLLs that appear to be linked into one of my
applications (27, to be
exact), static linking would eliminate two. Since some of these are
GDI32, KERNEL32
USER32 and ADVAPI, we are now down to 21 DLLs. Most of these are on the
redistributable
list, and therefore they, too, cannot be assumed to exist on the target
machine. The myth
that copy==install persists, but it has been obsolete for at least 15
years.

You need to examine ALL dependent DLL's and make sure they are there (with a
sufficient version), but it most certainly IS possible that they are there,
especially if only modern OS's like Win2K/XP/Vista are supported. For
example, it is not necessary to redist SHFOLDER.DLL (I think is what it is
called) on these OS's.

-- David


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