>> Firebird is currently being distributed with the msvcrt.dll that

ships with Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 5. It appears in fact to be a
later version than the dll mentioned on the web page - it is build
6.10.8637.0 rather than 6.0.8797.0.

Is 6.10.8637 really required? IMHO, I'd stick with deploying the
minimum version you had to unless there is a specific reason why you
need to ship the latest version.

> The article carries this disclaimer:
> Looks like Microsoft have as much trouble working all this out as the

rest of us.

Yeah, typical MS junk. Here's how you can do this, but it might not
work. All of the items in the disclaimer are handled by Wise
automatically (except for Admin rights).

My concern about newer versions of msvcrt.dll is that you might mess
things up if you don't use vcredist.exe to install that dll plus the
other visual C support files. I know with the very old one, you didn't
have to worry about any other files, but I don't know if the newer
version has any dependencies on other files.

David R.