That issue with the redistributable really caught me by surprise Patrice! I purchased VS 2008 ( VC9 ) summer before last. I had been using VC6 from way back in Win 98 times. With that old version it defaulted to the non - runtime version. Microsoft changed the defaults somewhere along the way between vc6 and vc9, and it took a long time for me to catch it, much to my embarressment! Right from the start I couldn't believe how small the executables were from VC 9! I was amazed! Just couldn't believe it! It never occurred to me that my executables required the VC9 runtime! I was comparing apples to oranges.
The way I finally discovered it, is somehow or other I tried to run one of my VC9 produced exes on one of my Win 2000 machines. Since then I've been seeing what I expected; compiled with VC9, my executables are fairly large. For this reason (and others), I tend to use the GNU Mingw compiler suite with CodeBlocks. It produces somewhat smaller exes. I don't have hard figures on it, but off the top of my head I'd estimate 5% to 15% smaller. The only thing is, I've never been able to have much success with it doing low level COM work. For that I have to resort to VC6 or VC9. The problem involves DEF files as related to creating COM servers.
You know, I recall the discussion you started several months ago when you were wanting to know how to do explicit linking with PowerBASIC Dlls from C++. That topic interests me, and I could see at some point taking it up. It is a PIA to have to do the LoadLibrary() / GetProcAddress() thing and use pointers to call functions in PB Dlls.
Is $999 too much to ask to fill this PowerBASIC deficiency? The commercial software realm can be brutal on the wallet.
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FYI ScriptBasic allows you to link dynamically or statically with extension modules when compiling your scripts with C.
