Re: Internationalization

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No, I was pointing out that in the past (and therefore, possibly now or in the future),
there have been problems with DLLs that are beyond the programmer's control, and therefore
the assumption that "static linking" means "I won't have problems with DLLs" doesn't
really seem compelling.

We distribute everything with the shared DLL, and yes, we've had problems, but only when
customers think that copy==install and copy the program across to another machine instead
of installing it (which also catches license violators...)
joe

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:16:59 GMT, "David Ching" <dc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I would have thought you would ship a .msi file that installed everything
required. Given
that you are concerned about one of the two dozen DLLs that are involved
in your program
running, why is this one singled out as being a point of concern?

Modern installs do side-by-side installs so everything you need should be
in the shipment
package. Except for the two dozen DLLs that are involved in your program
running (a
rather simple app I did required 26 DLLs, so I may be a little high or a
little low, but
it is a HUGE number of DLLs that are expected to work, and there have been
known bugs in
some of the OLE support DLLs, among other classics, and you CAN'T
statically link code to
make these go away...)

Your information is old. WinXP and later, which are what most of us support
these days, don't have the OLE problem.

-- David

Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
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