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Eevon what are you talking about? Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86) is about 4 MB. The same goes for Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x64). So what's the point of static linking? Is a 4 MB file that big?






Indeed. Usually they are quite bigger ...

Well, I guess you're right. DLLs and all are suposedly only to be used when having an installer, anything else is too time consuming for the end user. And on top, no one wnats to download the MSVC++2008 SP1 runtime, so I should make it static after all...

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But you WILL have to download the ...

you can't static link Dx or MSVC files (can you???)






Sure you can link staticaly any needed dlls. MSVC projects by default use dynamic linking. That's why they require lots of runtimes to run them. By using static liniking you can avoid such problems once and for all.







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Guys, i understand that these are WIP versions of the emu and all, but why don't you use static builds intstead dynamic anymore? There are tons of megabytes needed to be downloaded to use the emu now with only a micro portion of those runtimes really used in the emu. So please, upload ready to use ...