msvcp90: Prefer native version.

Piotr Caban piotr.caban at gmail.com
Fri May 17 04:12:34 CDT 2013


On 05/17/13 10:47, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> Piotr Caban <piotr.caban at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>>> Just like msvcp60,msvcp70,msvcp71,msvcp80,msvcp100,msvcp110 do.
>>> ...
>>>> msvcp90 has some wine specific exports. This patch breaks other msvcpXX
>>>> dlls when native msvcp90 is installed.
>>>
>>> Isn't that the case for other msvcp* dlls?
>>>
>> As far as I remember msvcp90.dll is the only one.
>>
>> On the other hand there are other benefits of preferring builtin dlls
>> over native ones. Thanks to it the dll is tested by more users. Because
>> there are no reported bugs related to msvcr90 I would prefer to use
>> builtin dll in this case as well (actually there's one bug but it's
>> abandoned).
>
> What's the point in treating only msvcp90 specially and leaving all other
> msvcp* dlls prefer native versions? At least for consistency sake.
>
I already wrote you what's the point of treating msvcp90 differently. If 
you want you can change other dlls as well but you will need to spend 
time working on regressions caused by the change.



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