How to use MFC4.2 dll's with VC++ .NET 2003

[Vijay Chegu]

Hi all,

I have two simple question.

1)
When i build a simple mfc app using VC 7.1 it uses mfc 7.1 dll's.
Is there a way i can force it to build the app with mfc42 ?
bcoz i cannot use this app with out supporting dll's.

If i can do it, i can just give my app and not bother about
distributing mfc dll's. I dont want to do a static linking bloating my
application.

1a)
Does MS ships MFC 7 and MFC7.1 dll's with latest OS ?
how about in longhorn atleast ?

2)
What is the best way to distribute mfc 7.1 dll's ?
I have a really small GUI application. Will Install Shield be of any
help ?

Thanx and regards,
Vijay Chegu
//vijaycheguforcemfc42

 

[David Lowndes]

When i build a simple mfc app using VC 7.1 it uses mfc 7.1 dll's.

Is there a way i can force it to build the app with mfc42 ?
bcoz i cannot use this app with out supporting dll's.

You're unlikely to get away with not shipping supporting DLLs even if
you use MFC42 DLLs.

If i can do it, i can just give my app and not bother about
distributing mfc dll's. I dont want to do a static linking bloating my
application.

Try static linking - you might find it doesn't increase the size of
your application as much as you might expect.

Does MS ships MFC 7 and MFC7.1 dll's with latest OS ?

Not as far as I know.

how about in longhorn atleast ?

Whoa, you're optimistic

What is the best way to distribute mfc 7.1 dll's ?
I have a really small GUI application. Will Install Shield be of any
help ?

You can create a "deployment" (setup) project using Visual Studio, and
if you've installed the redistributable merge modules when you
installed VS, it should automatically include the correct components
in your setup project.

Dave

 

[Chris Richards]

I would agree with Dave on this. Static linking of the MFC dlls probably
won't bloat your app as much as you think, plus it solves a whole HOST of
"Dll Hell' related issues. I pretty much static link MFC in all of my apps
nowadays.

Later,
Chris

 

[Vijay Chegu]

Thank you all.

Will probably use installshield setup based application to verify and copy dll's.

Regards,
Vijay Chegu