[pygtk] problem installing PyGTK on a clean WinXP system

[Bryan Feir]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 05:54:44PM +1000, John Pye wrote:
> Bryan Feir wrote:
> >    What installs it is the Visual Studio development environment.
> > MSVCR71 is the MicroSoft Visual C Runtime 7.1, which comes with Visual C
> > 7.1, which is part of Visual Studio .NET 2003.  You can tell which
> > version of Visual Studio was used by the numbers: programs compiled
> > under Visual Studio 2005 link to msvcr8.dll instead, for example.
> >   
> 
> I haven't got any of those MSVS things on my system, so it can't be
> that. You're sure that msvcr71.dll isn't installed by Windows Update?

   Pretty sure, but it could be installed by any other program that was
compiled with Visual Studio as well and that uses the C Runtime... which
I believe means any application that uses routines from the standard C
library instead of pure Win32 calls.  So all sorts of applications could
be installing it.  It just isn't guaranteed to be present on WinXP.

   Visual Studio comes with a redistribution licence that allows you to
send copies of msvcr*.dll and mfc*.dll along with your application, if
it requires them, precisely because they aren't guaranteed to be there.

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