Dependencies of Far plugins

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IgorT75
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Dependencies of Far plugins

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Hello all

I've developed simple plugin for Far and it works OK but there is a problem:

Plugin's dll has following dependencies: MSVCP80.DLL and MSVCR80.DLL (and of cours KERNEL32.DLL)
I used MSVS 2005 for development.

This dependencies means that if some PC has no redistributable package this plugin will not work.

I looked for dependencies of other plugins - they have no MSVC???.DLL dependencies.
The question is: how to avoid this dependencies?
Of course I can compile statically but dll size will increase largely.

Thanks in advance
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IgorT75
Don't use libc. See source code of Far std plugins.
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t-rex wrote:IgorT75
Don't use libc. See source code of Far std plugins.
Thats just what I did:
I created win32 dll (empty project) in MSVS 2005.
Downloaded SimpleFP far plugin as an example. Here it is in attachment.
After building I looked for a dependencies...

dumpbin /dependencies reported: (in Release configuration)
Image has the following dependencies:

USER32.dll
MSVCR80.dll
KERNEL32.dll

As you can see MSVC???.DLL dependency still exists.
Probably I'm doing smth wrong or don't understand smth
Can you help me please...
Thanks
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IgorT75
You use
strlen
sprintf
strcpy
memset
which are libc. You need to define them yourself, sprintf is provided by Far (in FSF) so you can use it from there. Then you will need to to add some additional switches for the compiler (http://api.farmanager.com/ru/articles/r ... oftvc.html a bit old but gives the right idea). And finally you can checkout how standard Far plugins are built.
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