I'm looking at the most recent program I did this way.  Statically linked it
was 473K, which by PIC standards is certainly massively bloated, but it is
small enough to get through just about anybody's email server as an
attachment.  All the customer had to do to run it was click on the icon in
his email program, and it just ran without needing to have any dll's copied
to osbcure directories or an elaborate install program.

Of course this meant he trusted me not to have sent him a virus or trojan
horse, but he did, so...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Rigby-Jones [mailto:mrjones@NORTELNETWORKS.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 1:43 AM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [EE] C++ vs. Visual Basic
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Don Hyde [SMTP:DonH@AXONN.COM]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 6:11 PM
> > To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> > Subject:      Re: [EE] C++ vs. Visual Basic
> >
SNIP a bunch of stuff...

> Unless things have changed since I last used C++ Builder you
> can either
> staticaly link all the runtimes, producing a huge executable,
> *or* have to
> distribute the run time DLL's with the executable.
>
> > It really impresses customers when you discuss something on
> the phone and
> > then email them a pretty-looking program the next day.
> >
> >
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