Re: win95 version of root 2/009

O'NEEL Bruce (beoneel@acm.org)
Wed, 22 Jul 1998 16:54:48 +0200 (MET DST)


Thanks very much!

cheers

bruce

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.
>
> Valery
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