Re: win95 version of root 2/009

Fons Rademakers (rdm@pcsalo.cern.ch)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 01:01:59 +0200 (METDST)


Dear M$ ROOT Users,

the msvcrt.dll is now available via:

ftp://hpsalo.cern.ch/root/msvcrt.dll

Cheers, Fons.

> Valery Fine writes:
> > On 22 Jul 98 at 13:45, O'NEEL Bruce wrote:
> >
> > > Someone here has a problem with the win95 version of root. If we
> > > don't download MSVCIRT.DLL, when root is run it complains that a
> > > required DLL file, MSVCRT.DLL, was not found. If we do download
> > > MSVCIRT.DLL then we get the same message. OTOH, if we rename
> > > MSVCIRT.DLL to MSVCRT.DLL we get
> > >
> > > The MSVCRT.DLL file is linked to missing export
> > > MSVCRT.DLL:__pioinfo.
> >
> > This means you have an obsolete version of MSVCRT.DLL.
> > ROOT is compiled with VC++ 5.0 and one needs that DLL from this
> > version. Usually it is installed with some "third" party packages.
> >
> > The current "light" installation of ROOT doesn't check whether the
> > present version of Microsoft DLL'a are up-to-date and it doesn't
> > update things though (for that some third party installation package
> > like InstallShield should bought).
> >
> > I am goinf to ask Fons to upload this DLL on the ROOT ftp/web site
> > to re-destribute.
> >

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