[vtkusers] Quicktime weirdness

[Gib Bogle]

Quoting John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>:

> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Gib Bogle <g.bogle at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>> Good point Rakesh! I assumed that the one I built the program with is the
>> same
>> as the one on the MS download site (they are both for MSVC 2005), but now I
>> see
>> that the files differ in size by a few bytes, and differ a lot on a binary
>> file
>> compare. I've asked him to check the version number of the manifest that was
>> created when he ran vcredist_x86.exe (wherever that is).
>>
>
> There are several versions depending on what SP (service pack) of
> visual studio you have. Although applying a visual studio service pack
> should have updated the redistributable. One other thing to check is
> if you built your dependencies with the same SP. Although I believe
> that would show up in the manifest for your application. At one time I
> had Qt with one SP and my application with a second SP so installing
> would have required both redistributables.
>
> John

I wondered about that, but the build manifest shows only the one  
version.  It's something to be aware of.

Gib


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