"Michael" == Michael Cardenas michaelc@lindows.com writes:
Michael> Hello everyone. My name is Michael Cardenas and I'm working on Michael> Wine for Lindows.com. I'd like to start a lot more Michael> communication with all of you and I have a couple of questions.
Michael> I'm working on an app that uses a custom dll which requires Michael> msvcp60.dll to be loaded at launch time and won't launch Michael> without it.
Michael> Currently there's no implementation of msvcp60.dll in wine. Is Michael> that just because no one has needed it yet?
Probably. Another possibility might be that every application that needs it, has a copy in it's setup.
Michael> Or has someone Michael> looked into this and seen that it's too large to do? Or is it Michael> just not needed and there's some substitute dll? Doing some Michael> research, I see that on a fresh install of Windows98, the dll Michael> is present, so it seems to be a common windows dll. MSDN Michael> mentions the dll in this article: Michael> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/... Michael> "A good example of this is the Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Michael> assembly, which includes atl.dll, mfc42.dll, mfc42u.dll, and Michael> msvcp60.dll."
This explicitly points to my guess above. Nearly every application using MFC distributes the files mentioned.
Michael> Also, there's been basically no discussion of Michael> this dll on this mailing list. So, to proceed, I'm going to Michael> create a stub dll and hope the app will launch and not need Michael> many functions from that dll. I'd like to know if there's a Michael> good way to make a complete stub for the dll. Right now, I just Michael> made a stub dll with one function.
There is no "good way" know yet. It seems msvcp60.dll exports a hugh number of entries ( >2000). So I guess it falls in the mfc42 category (nearly impossible to reimplement because of sheer size). http://groups.google.com/groups?q=msvcp60&hl=en&selm=8502qq%24931%24... also has some good explanations around that redistribution license.
Hope this helps