On 01/10/2007, Charlie Savage <cfis / savagexi.com> wrote: > > Note a big downside of VC2003/VC2005 is having to distribute the various > required Microsoft CRT dlls - that is a royal PITA. And that is why > MingW/msys/VC++6 are so convenient - they use older versions of the CRT > that are on all Windows machines. > What's the problem here? The whole point here is that you do want to distribute dlls. Just pack in one or two more. And if the oci is built using the new compiler it would have the dlls already so there is no problem at all. Thanks Michal