[Haskell-cafe] A small question

[J. Garrett Morris]

On Nov 21, 2007 5:16 AM, Jeremy O'Donoghue <jeremy.odonoghue at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not just Windows Vista. Applications and DLLs compiled with Visual
> Studio 2005 (Express or full version) seem to need it to run on XP as
> well.

I believe the dependency here is version 8 of the Visual C RTL.
Applications that don't touch the RTL don't need to worry about it.

> Basically it contains a list of *exactly* which libraries were used to
> link the application, as well as permissions. It's alleged to
> eliminate DLL hell (which it does by replacing it with Manifest hell).

Since, at least with Microsoft's tools, the manifest is normally
included in the executable image instead of being a separate file, I'm
not sure how they could become confused and/or out of sync, as DLLs
could become.

 /g

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