Managed C++: Embedding Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable

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Managed C++: Embedding Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable(boxedapp.com)

submitted by _UE_(230) 3 years, 10 months ago

If you use a DLL written in Managed C++, you should a few DLLs from the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable package installed. There are no usual ways to link these libraries statically (due to C++ / CLI restrictions). But there a way to include these DLLs into your application, see how in this article.

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posted by TheColonial(0) 3 years, 10 months ago 0

Is this legal? Shipping individual MS components individually isn't always something that you can do willy-nilly. Packaging up the DLL as a resource could break the license agreement?

I was under the impression that you always had to include the entire redistributable in your app?

posted by Reactor(0) 3 years, 10 months ago 0

> Is this legal? Shipping individual MS components individually isn't always something that you can do willy-nilly. Packaging up the DLL as a resource could break the license agreement?

I think it's fully legal, becuase it's the same as you link these dlls statically, as in the case of unmanaged c++...

> I was under the impression that you always had to include the entire redistributable in your app?

m$ is crazy :)

anyway, it's good that there is a good solution such as boxedapp...

posted by TheColonial(0) 3 years, 10 months ago 0

You think or your KNOW it's legal? Including a DLL in your resources and dropping it on a filesystem is most definitely NOT the same as linking statically. :)

posted by Reactor(0) 3 years, 10 months ago 0

> You think or your KNOW it's legal?

Unfortunaly, I don't work in MS and I'm not a lawer, so I can only thinking :))

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