when my friend trys to run my game, she gets an error, a missing "MSVCIRTD.DLL" was not found. now since im not an idiot, im pretty sure that stands for microsoft visual c. the only thing is, i use nothing windows specific for my game (maybe bmps), but i use SDL for my API, so its nothing directx related. are there any includes (standard c++ inc files for vc6) that would cause them to need this file? im on XP and i think she uses 98. whats the deal? it works on my other system that runs ME. so i dont think its an XP issue. why would my game need that DLL if it is not windows specific? ps: i use #pragma once (which is vc6 exslusive) but isn''t that compiled into machine code? giving her that file doesnt seem to help! thanks!

SDL uses DirectDraw on Windows platforms. Why not just give her the dll?

[edited by - Raloth on August 5, 2003 11:39:10 PM]

By the ''D'' at the end of the dll name i sense you gave her a debug exe. Don''t do that (unless you want to search for other referenced debug dlls and copy one after another).
When you installed Visual Studio/C/whatever you''ll get a lot of debug dlls in your system.
A default windows installation will only have the release versions of those, so probably she''ll have the right dll already (msvcirt.dll).

ok. well then i have to build a release version of my game. no problem. the only thing is that when i change the configuration to Win32 Release, i get these errors:

--------------------Configuration: AeroDX2 - Win32 Release--------------------
Compiling...
main.cpp
Linking...
MSVCRT.lib(crtexe.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _main
Release/AeroDX2.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
Error executing link.exe.

AeroDX2.exe - 2 error(s), 0 warning(s)


its acting like im in a Win32 application, not a console (and it is a console). the code compiles just fine under debug. whats thae deal with that?