Unwanted .Net framework dependency

[Harry Hanley]

Somehow my application has developed a dependency on the .Net framework.



It is a C++ app built much the same as one would have with Visual Studio 6.



We were happily using Visual Studio .Net 2003 with no dependency on the .Net
framework. Somewhere along the line someone must have accidentally clicked
were they shouldn't have and the dependency arose.



Does anyone have any clues as to where to start to look to remove this
dependency?



Many regards,



Harry Hanley



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[Gabriel Magaña]

Remove the dependency and recompile to see if anything breaks?

 

[Harry Hanley]

I cannot find the dependency. This is the main problem. I do not know where
it came from nor where it is only that customers cannot run without
installing dotnetfx.exe.

-Harry

 

[Gabriel Magaña]

So how do you know the dependency is there? Only at the time of install?

 

[Harry Hanley]

Be cause users can no longer run the app without installing dotnetfx.exe...
a 20 mG download.

-Harry

 

[Gabriel Magaña]

Ugh... I'd try asking the people over at
microsoft.public.dotnet.langauges.vc or microsoft.public.vc.ide_general or
the other vc.* NGs...

Otherwise I'd suggest the obvious: Check each and every option on your C++
project, and turn off anything that mentions "managed".

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Is it a *managed* C++ project, by any chance?

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
You can lead a fish to a bicycle,
but it takes a very long time,
and the bicycle has to *want* to change.

 

[Harry Hanley]

Thanks, at least that gives me a clue.

-Harry

Ugh... I'd try asking the people over at
microsoft.public.dotnet.langauges.vc or microsoft.public.vc.ide_general or
the other vc.* NGs...

Otherwise I'd suggest the obvious: Check each and every option on your C++
project, and turn off anything that mentions "managed".

 

[Lloyd Dupont]

remove /clr

 

[Harry Hanley]

That was it exactly, one library was needlessly set as "managed".

Many regards,

Harry Hanley

 

[Gabriel Magana]

Great deal! Sometimes a shot in the dark works!

That was it exactly, one library was needlessly set as "managed".

Many regards,

Harry Hanley