Hello,

In message "Re: More on VC++ 2005"
    on Jan.06,2006 10:52:06, <nobuyoshi.nakada / ge.com> wrote:
| Is .manifest file really mandatory?  I don't know how it is
| used, but /manifest:no linker option seems to suppress making
| it.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235624.aspx

> Visual C++ libraries cannot be used by a C/C++ application without
> a manifest binding the application to these libraries. If a C/C++
> application that depends on a Visual C++ library does not use a
> manifest, then an attempt to load the Visual C++ library as a
> dependent DLL from the application-local folder will result in an
> error message indicating that this is an unsupported way of loading
> a Visual C++ library.


Regards.
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