[Paraview] MinGW compilation

[Berk Geveci]

Ah, I see. I think there is a way of packaging the vs05 dlls without
requiring the users to install the Microsoft dlls themselves. It has
something to do with manifests and such. Dave Cole would know better.

-berk

On 2/28/08, Mike Jackson <imikejackson at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?postid=261
>
>  explains it way better than me. Basically with VS 6 there was DLL
>  hell. With VS 7, MS tried to alleviate the problem by saying put all
>  your DLLs in the same directory as the executable. This alleviated DLL
>  Hell but MS could NOT centrally admin those c runtime libraries like
>  they could in VS 6. So they came up with DLL versioning. But to use
>  this each user has to run an executable that installs the VS 8 Runtime
>  DLL in system32, which requires admin access. My users don't have
>  admin rights on their machines. So basically this would require 2
>  support calls to our computer support department. One to install the
>  VS8Runtime dlls and another to install ParaView. With VS2003.Net it is
>  a drag and drop installation, and probably with MinGW.
>
>  Hope that explains it. (I have gotten a real education on this today.
>  You know me, I am an OS X/Linux guy)
>
>
>  Mike
>
>
>  On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
>  > This will probably expose my ignorance about Windows but why can't
>  > your users install a vs05 build without admin privileges?
>  >
>  > -berk
>  >
>  >
>  > On 2/28/08, Mike Jackson <imikejackson at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > > is anyone using MinGW to compile ParaView cvs? Turns out I only have
>  > >  the Standard version of VS2003.net so there is no optimization
>  > >  allowed. I am thinking of alternatives. I have VS2005 Pro except I
>  > >  really need something that can produce a drag and drop installation.
>  > >  Our users do not have local admin on their machines to use an actual
>  > >  installer.
>  > >
>  > >  Any comments are most welcome.
>  > >
>  > >  Thanks
>  > >
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