From: Peter Wood <peter@...>
Date: 2005-04-12T23:49:01+09:00
Subject: Re: extensions on Windows

>"Steven Jenkins" <steven.jenkins@ieee.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
>news:425BDB65.7070307@ieee.org...
>>  Robert Klemme wrote:
>>  >>I ran into this one as well while using the free compilation tools
>>  >>from Microsoft. I believe you also have to install the .Net SDK to
>>  >>get the MSVCRT.lib. Hope that helps.
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > I'm not 100% sure but I think I remember that this lib is part of the
>OS.
>>  > Did you check whether you have that file or MSVCRT.DLL on your
>machine?
>>
>>  I have 17 copies of the .dll, but none of the .lib.
>>
>>  The error I get is
>>
>>  LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file "MSVCRT.LIB'
>>
>>  Can I link against the DLL?
>
><disclaimer windowsguru="false">I think so.</disclaimer>
>
>     robert

I gave up trying trying to get my extension to compile against a DLL. 
If you install the .NET SDK to the default location the msvcrt.lib 
file should be in a subdirectory below c:\Program Files\Microsoft 
Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc (probably lib). I know its a pain and a 
waste of disk space (if that concerns you) but it worked for me.

Peter