Hi all,
I have just re installed VC6, and now the mesh plugin and the Amin Plug no
longer work (both worked before VC6), this seems to be a persistant problem,
is this likely to be resolved with the next release of these?

Rick

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Hi Rick, you recently wrote in moray.win:

> I have just re installed VC6, and now the mesh plugin and the Amin Plug no
> longer work (both worked before VC6), this seems to be a persistant problem,
> is this likely to be resolved with the next release of these?
Welcome to the club of VC6-damaged plugin writers<g>. There are
serious problems between the MFC libraries of VC5 and VC6 as Xander
and I can testify (extensively!). As a result, I will be releasing the
next version with static linking and all plugins will need to be
recompiled with static linking, too. Keep an eye on the SDK mailing
list for details once it becomes current.

- Lutz
  email : lut### [at] stmuccom
  Web   : http://www.stmuc.com/moray

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Rick wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> I have just re installed VC6, and now the mesh plugin and the Amin Plug no
> longer work (both worked before VC6), this seems to be a persistant problem,
> is this likely to be resolved with the next release of these?
> 
> Rick

This is funny as hell (only because of the incredible email traffic
between Lutz and I on versioning of Moray and plugins and MS compilers,
and, and, ...)

The mesh and anim plugins are both compiled with VC6 (you have install
the service packs?), and so you should actually be better off now than
before.  [Of course, from the contents of your message that doesn't
appear to be the case.]

However, ...

Moray needs to link to the VC5 versions of MFC42.DLL, which by default
gets installed in the main Moray directory.  You may need to check to
see what version is actually getting loaded (run Moray from the debugger
and look at the output window - you will see the directory to all
runtime DLL's that get loaded).

If you are using the latest builds of the anim and mesh plugins (beta 9
for anim), the dependency on that DLL should be removed.  If you open up
windows explorer, right click on AnimPlugin.DLL, select "quick view",
you will see a list of import libraries - MFC42.DLL shouldn't be there
(you have an old version if it does).  If quick view doesn't do it, open
a command console and do "dumpbin /imports animplugin.dll" - that will
give the listing as well.

Since I develop using VC6 and run the current version of Moray, I assure
you that it can be made to work.

Xander

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is answer to your queation, no i dont have the sp installet yet, there in my
dl manager, and will have them soon!

I will try what you suggest, i get back

Rick
Alexander Enzmann <xan### [at] mitreorg> wrote in message
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>
>
> Rick wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> > I have just re installed VC6, and now the mesh plugin and the Amin Plug
no
> > longer work (both worked before VC6), this seems to be a persistant
problem,
> > is this likely to be resolved with the next release of these?
> >
> > Rick
>
> This is funny as hell (only because of the incredible email traffic
> between Lutz and I on versioning of Moray and plugins and MS compilers,
> and, and, ...)
>
> The mesh and anim plugins are both compiled with VC6 (you have install
> the service packs?), and so you should actually be better off now than
> before.  [Of course, from the contents of your message that doesn't
> appear to be the case.]
>
> However, ...
>
> Moray needs to link to the VC5 versions of MFC42.DLL, which by default
> gets installed in the main Moray directory.  You may need to check to
> see what version is actually getting loaded (run Moray from the debugger
> and look at the output window - you will see the directory to all
> runtime DLL's that get loaded).
>
> If you are using the latest builds of the anim and mesh plugins (beta 9
> for anim), the dependency on that DLL should be removed.  If you open up
> windows explorer, right click on AnimPlugin.DLL, select "quick view",
> you will see a list of import libraries - MFC42.DLL shouldn't be there
> (you have an old version if it does).  If quick view doesn't do it, open
> a command console and do "dumpbin /imports animplugin.dll" - that will
> give the listing as well.
>
> Since I develop using VC6 and run the current version of Moray, I assure
> you that it can be made to work.
>
> Xander

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