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

[Mark Knecht]

On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:19:50 +0000, Mike Hearn <mike at navi.cx> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> > How can this really work? Does every Windows app use what's in
> > system32 or are they free to call their own private copy of this dll.
> 
> If they have their own copy that's used, otherwise the system32 copy is
> used.
> 

So each app owns its own path description to Program Files\whatever
and uses that  if it wants to. I suppose an app could put it's own
copy in its own directory but still use the system32 verison depending
on how that app is programmed.

This is independent of Windows or Wine, correct? Wine must play by the
same rules? If I install an app that places a copy in it's own
directory then the app could use that. Do you let any app install a
copy in system or system32 or do you implement the same sort of 'You
are attempting to installa  version that is older..." protections? (Or
maybe that's part of the installer app?)

Geez....what fun to debug....

Anyway, thanks for the lesson. you've succeeded in scaring me even
more about Windows.

Cheers,
Mark