[GRASS-dev] wingrass standalone default options, Microsoft Runtime Libraries

[Vaclav Petras]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 5:08 AM, Helmut Kudrnovsky <hellik at web.de> wrote:

> Martin Landa wrote
> > Hi all,
> >
> > it seems to me that to enable installing Important Microsoft Runtime
> > Libraries is crucial when installing GRASS using standalone installer
> > on newer versions of Windows.
> >
> > I wonder if it would make sense to enable it by default (now it's
> > uncheck). What do you think? Thanks, Martin
>
> maybe a better way would be to check if the needed runtime libraries are
> already installed?
>
> unfortunately I've never found an easy and feasible way for checking this.
>
> so a +0 for a default install of a Microsoft Runtime Libraries.
>

I don't understand it much but it seems to me that it always worked only
when they were actually in the GRASS directory. (Although in theory it
should be enough to have them on PATH.)
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