shipping an MFC application

Printable View

September 12th, 2004, 01:09 AM
spicy_kid2000

shipping an MFC application

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.
September 12th, 2004, 03:10 AM
puzzolino

Re: shipping an MFC application

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
September 12th, 2004, 04:53 AM
gstercken

Re: shipping an MFC application

Quote:

Originally Posted by puzzolino

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.
September 12th, 2004, 04:32 PM
puzzolino

Re: shipping an MFC application

Quote:

Originally Posted by gstercken

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...