Thread: Stand alone app and .dll's

I've made a GUI application that I want anyone to be able to run. If I run the .exe. file on a comp with a C++ compiler installed it works fine, but if there is no MS Visual C++ 6.0 it asks for a .dll file

How can I make an instal package to allow any user to say install it to their computer and then run the application? I don't want to install the compiler, just watever the files that a program may need to run. and how do I know which files to include in a thing like this?

Thanks,

What dll is it trying to link to? Perhaps you could find a link-during-compile version of it (.a or .lib), so it wouldn't need to link later.

I tried pasting that .dll to the c: drive on that computer but it didn't like it still. and even if I fix this problem, how do I know that someone won't need a different one. Can I add all the .dll's from the header files to a shrink wrap type of package that will ocme with the program?

and the .dll I need is MSVCP60D.dll

That dll is the c runtime dll for msvc6. You should build your exe in release mode and make sure you STATICALLY link to the c runtime. Its in the project options somewhere, at the moment you are dynamically linking to the runtime hence the dll must be present in the correct folder(usually system32) for your app to work.

If I did this correctly, I get an error msg that looks like this:

Code:

error LNK2005: "void __cdecl operator delete(void *)" (??3@YAXPAX@Z) 
already defined in libcpmtd.lib(delop.obj)
Debug/Initial GUI.exe : fatal error LNK1169: one or more multiply defined symbols found

I changed from "Use MFC as a shared DLL" to "Use MFC a static library" for the project.

and when I tried switching the build configuration to Release mode, it gave the same error. The window that opens to switch the build configuration doesn't have an OK button or anything. I selected the release mode and hit close. When I went back to it again it still had Win32 Debug mode selected. What else am I supposed to do?