Stefan Heymann pisze:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a demo version of my software bundled with Embedded Firebird
> 2.1.1. Now a customer installed that on an XP machine with no Service
> Pack (or an old SP).
>
> I gave the vccrt8_Win32.msi file from the Firebird 2.1.1 Zip file to
> the customer, but he was unable to run it because of his MSI Installer
> being too old.
>
> What can I do to overcome such situations?
>
> I expect hell on earth when I deliver a larger number of demo versions
> to people that just want to install a simple software. Why can't
> fbclient.dll just run on any Windows like it did before? I don't get
> over it.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Stefan
>

IMHO, Firebird team could publish (only for such purpose) statically
linked version of Firebird embedded (and maybe client), but I'm not sure
if this is allowed by licence.
Certainly the best way is to install latest Service Pack and continue
with VC++ runtime installation.


Regards
Boguslaw