shipping an MFC application

[spicy_kid2000]

Hello all

I have written an MFC apllication, dialog based and build in release mode.now am sending this to my friend.Do i need to send any other
DLL's with my app?he doesnt have VC++ installed on his PC.


Thanks in Advance.

[puzzolino]

Just make sure you're linking to the static MFC libraries (project settings dialog).
If you use dynamic linking you'll need to ship both MFC and MSVCRT dlls.

A nice trick would be to use dependency walker to check for all dependent modules in your app: http://www.dependencywalker.com

[gstercken]

If you use dynamic linking you'll need to ship both MFC and MSVCRT dlls.

Well, that's not entirely true: Since Win95 at least, the VC and MFC runtime libraries are already installed with the system - no need to ship them separately.

[puzzolino]

Well, that's not entirely true: Since Win95 at least, the VC and MFC runtime libraries are already installed with the system - no need to ship them separately.

Well, you are assuming spicy_kid2000 has built his code on Visual C++ 6.
VC 7 updated both MFC and MSVCRT dlls so his program won't work if he doesn't ship them.
Also in the case of Win95/98/NT I'd not rely on those DLLs being present or up-to-date if I used MFC; anyway I'm not been using MFC in my own programs for last two years...