From: "U.Nakamura" Date: 2006-01-06T11:45:14+09:00 Subject: Re: More on VC++ 2005 Hello, In message "Re: More on VC++ 2005" on Jan.06,2006 10:52:06, wrote: | Is .manifest file really mandatory? I don't know how it is | used, but /manifest:no linker option seems to suppress making | it. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235624.aspx > Visual C++ libraries cannot be used by a C/C++ application without > a manifest binding the application to these libraries. If a C/C++ > application that depends on a Visual C++ library does not use a > manifest, then an attempt to load the Visual C++ library as a > dependent DLL from the application-local folder will result in an > error message indicating that this is an unsupported way of loading > a Visual C++ library. Regards. -- U.Nakamura