[Wine]Re: Re: wine-20050111 - missing MSVCR71.dll

[Mark Knecht]

On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:08:32 +0000, Mike Hearn <mike at navi.cx> wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 08:54:57 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >    I got the dll file. I didn't know where toplace it so I placed it
> > in the directory that the app was in and it works fine. Is there a
> > more general purpose place I should be putting these? C:\system or
> > system32?
> 
> Either should work fine. Apps are not supposed to dump stuff in system[32]
> anymore, that is what led to DLL hell. I would report the lack of this DLL
> to the authors as a bug, they should ship it with their app though they
> may not realise it.
> 
> thanks -mike
> 

Mike,
   I will consider that. This app is a small VST synth. They are small
plugins, dll files themselves, that are used in Windows audio apps. In
my experience none of these *free* VSTs distribute anything other than
their own self-contained VST dll when we get them off the web.
Possibly in the for-money ones do. I'll have to look at the few I own.

   I tried moving it to windows/system and things work fine. I suppose
the risk in that strategy would be losing the dll if I blow the
directory away so I'll keep a copy somewhere else for safety.

   Thanks for your help. 

Cheers,
Mark