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authorBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2003-12-15 14:37:57 +0000
committerBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2009-06-23 12:11:30 +0200
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Add a note about the incompatibility of MSVC7 and the GPL/LGPL.
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@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ Installation on Woe32 (WinNT/2000/XP, Win95/98/ME):
- Requires MS Visual C/C++ 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0 or 7.0.
+ Note that binaries created with MSVC 7.0 cannot be distributed: They depend
+ on a closed-source library 'msvcr70.dll' which is not normally part of a
+ Woe32 installation, therefore the distribution of such binaries - with or
+ without msvcr70.dll - would be a violation of the GPL. This problem does not
+ occur with MSVC 6.0 and earlier.
+
- Cannot build in a separate directory.
- Build instructions: