Re: Setting the font for Gtk::Button

[Tor Lillqvist <tml iki fi>]

> ÂPerhaps 'deprecated' is a better description than obsolete. Âmsvcrt.dll is provided nowadays purely and 
> simply for backwards compatibility with older apps

Why does even the 64-bit notepad.exe, to pick an example, then link to
the 64-bit msvcrt.dll? Or the 64-bit ws2_32.dll, to pick another
example. OK, so those can maybe be said to be "older" apps and
libraries. Let's pick a new one, hmm, for instance dwm.exe, the
"Desktop Window Manager" that handles the desktop 3d and transparency
effects, since Vista (afaik), is that new enough? It too links to
msvcrt.dll.

> 64-bit Windows needs the dll because Win64 can still run 32-bit apps but AFAIK, no Microsoft compiler has 
> used it
> or needed it for nearly 10 years.

I was talking about the 64-bit msvcrt.dll. Is it a surprise to you
that it exists?

And, if no Microsoft compiler uses the 32- or 64-bit msvcrt.dll,
please then tell me how the Microsoft DLLs and EXEs that link to it
are built? With MinGW?

The truth is that msvcrt.dll (32- and 64-bit builds) is heavily used
by Microsoft themselves. As a mere customer. you just have to jump
through some hoops to be able to use it, if you are in a purely
Microsoft tools only environment.  I think one needs to use a driver
development kit or something.

--tml