Author: F. Huber
Date: 07:32:12 11/30/05
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On November 30, 2005 at 08:27:52, S J J wrote: >Hi all, > > I've written a Checkers engine, Boozer 2.2, that works on the Checkerboard >GUI of Martin Fierz and am doing a first release. The engine works on both of >my home computers. > > The only feedback that I've received from others is from one person who said >they could not run the engine and got the following message "This application >has failed to start because MFC42D.DLL was not found". > > If anyone could take a few minutes to try it and let me know if the engine >functions on your machine, that would be greatly appreciated. > > Martin's Checkboard 1.631 GUI can be downloaded at: >http://www.fierz.ch/download.htm > > Boozer 2.2 can be download at: >http://home.comcast.net/~sdsjoyce/BoozerCheckers.html > >Thank you, >Steve Hi Steve! I´ve tried it here on my Win98 system, and it also doesn´t work - but I simply get an error message from CheckerBoard that it couldn´t find your engine (although it is displayed in the engine list). Because of your info about the missing MFC42D.DLL I´ve looked a little bit into the code of your Boozer22.dll and found the following text: "Microsoft (R) Visual C++ (R) ... Note: The terms of the End User License Agreement for Visual C++ Introductory Edition do not permit redistribution of executables you create with this Product." So my explanation would be, that you have a special version of MSVC++, which is only for your _personal_ use, and doesn´t allow to give your compilations to anyone else. And to make such a distribution impossible, your MSVC++ version contains a special MFC42D.DLL, which is only available in this special MSVC++. I´ve also tried to simply rename the usual MFC42.DLL to MFC42D.DLL, but this also didn´t work. So there will be only 2 possible solutions: Either you also distribute this special MFC42D.DLL together with your engine (which seems to be illegal, see text above!), or you´ll have to compile your project with a standard MSVC++ compiler (which allows further distribution). Regards, Franz.
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