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| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2004-01-22 11:13:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2009-06-23 12:11:42 +0200 |
| commit | d6c55f9bf8de9e8a6b4340573f9722dad2555c23 (patch) | |
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Update the note about MSVC7 to reflect RMS's opinion.
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diff --git a/README.woe32 b/README.woe32 index 1d33722..ed08374 100644 --- a/README.woe32 +++ b/README.woe32 @@ -2,11 +2,14 @@ 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. + Note that binaries created with MSVC 7.0 should not be distributed: They + depend on a closed-source library 'msvcr70.dll' which is not normally part + of a Woe32 installation. You cannot distribute 'msvcr70.dll' with the + binaries - this would be a violation of the GPL and of the Microsoft EULA. + You can distribute the binaries without including 'msvcr70.dll', but this + will cause problems for users that don't have this library on their system. + Therefore it is not recommended. This problem does not occur with MSVC 6.0 + and earlier. - Cannot build in a separate directory. |