Re: GNAT, portability between computers (win32)

[gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com]

Le mercredi 10 août 2016 22:44:51 UTC+2, Aurele a écrit :
> Hi Gautier, I ran into the problem described above.  In fact, if you run the application tool I linked above which resolves all the dependencies, you should see that a compiled GNAT application (.exe) can indeed depend on GNAT specific DLLs. But I wonder if this problem could have to do with compiling on a commercial GNAT version versus using the free a version?

Never saw this issue, neither with GNAT GPL, nor with MinGW (cannot say for GNAT Pro).
You can check dependencies with TeXCAD ( http://texcad.sf.net ) or AZip ( http://azip.sf.net ). One is compiled with GPL and the other one with any of GPL or MinGW. In the 3 cases, Dependency Walker lists the following:

    ADVAPI32.DLL
    COMCTL32.DLL
    COMDLG32.DLL
    GDI32.DLL
    KERNEL32.DLL
    MSVCRT32.DLL
    OLE32.DLL
    OLEAUT32.DLL
    SHELL32.DLL
    USER32.DLL

All are located in %windir%\system32, except COMCTL32.DLL which is in special subdirectory of %windir%.
IIRC, COMCTL32.DLL is installed by default since Windows 98, but since it a post-early-1990's addition, it was never allowed to be in the system32 directory 
(I'm testing here on Windows 7 but I guess someone with Windows 8 or 10 would see the same.
Funny, isn't it ?
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