nhelp, Vector NTI, molecular biologists

Uwe Bonnes bon at elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de
Fri Sep 7 03:05:25 CDT 2007


>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> writes:

    Dan> Misha wrote:
    >> and even my version of Windows 98 is bundled with mfc42.dll, so wine
    >> really should provide it too...  [our own version, not Microsoft's.]

    Dan> Well, sure.  Same goes for a lot of things.  But since mfc42.dll is
    Dan> a Visual C++ runtime file that has very liberal redistribution
    Dan> terms and is in fact bundled with many apps, we can get away
    Dan> without it for a long time.  And it's not currently a showstopper
    Dan> as far as I can tell; I'm more interested in the bugs that keep
    Dan> e.g. Photoshop from running flawlessly.

    Dan> So one of these days it might become a priority.  Until then, it's
    Dan> merely important but not urgent.  - Dan

Missing MFC42 and other redistributable DLLs is a showstopper for winelib
and running windows code on non i386 archtecture...

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