[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #1877: startup error reported by program

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#1877: startup error reported by program
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 Reporter:  x1z379v472  |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  defect      |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  normal      |   Milestone:  6.4.3                    
Component:  Startup     |     Version:  6.4.3 RCs                
 Keywords:              |    Platform:  MSWindows XP             
      Cpu:  x86-32      |  
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Comment(by hamish):

 Hi,

 MSCVP100.dll is a Microsoft library, you need to do a web search and get
 it from them. Technically it is a violation of the GPL for us to provide
 it directly- we need to test for the presence of such things and point
 to/launch download of them from the installer, making it clear that it's a
 3rd party (MS) system library and not part of our program. So while we
 can't ship it as part of the main installer, we can and should make it
 trivial to install along side.

 Note that the "visual runtime redistributable" libraries are provided by
 MS gratis, and OSGeo4W has an installer with them.
 Probably one of the build components that goes into WinGrass was built
 with a new version of MS's compiler which isn't provided by osgeo's zip
 file of dlls?

 see the WinGrass release notes readme. (not sure where that has gotten to
 lately with the new website, but it'll be around)


 Hamish

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