[Qt-interest] Mismatched VC90 CRT versions in manifest file

[David Ching]

"Dave Smith" <dave at thesmithfam.org> wrote in message 
news:4B61B6D3.6010708 at thesmithfam.org...
> How can I tell what version of Visual Studio 2008 I have installed? I am 
> using Express, and Help About shows Version 9.0.30729.1 SP with the 
> following details:
>
> Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
> Version 9.0.30729.1 SP
...
> I don't think there's a newer version available.
>

I was going by the manifest that was generated (and apparently not embedded) 
when you built your .exe... you said it was 9.0.21022.8 which is VS 2008 
RTM.  However, you are right, from the About box, you do have VS 2008 SP1. 
I think what happened is that you don't have _BIND_TO_CURRENT_VCLIBS_VERSION 
defined, so even though you are building with SP1, your generated .exe is 
using RTM.  See 
http://tedwvc.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/avoiding-problems-with-vc2005-sp1-security-update-kb971090/ 
for more.


> Last night I rebuilt Qt 4.6.1 from sources using my visual studio, and I 
> get the same problem on a fresh XP install.
>

Just to make crystal clear, no matter what version of VS was used to build 
Qt, and what version of VS was used to build your .exe,

  1) They must be binded to the same version of the redists
  2) Those redists must be on the target system.  A fresh XP install doesn't 
have those redists.  So you must install them using one of the methods I 
said.

-- David