Linking C runtime

[Chintoo723]

Is there any way to use VS2003 or VS2005 for development and still link with VS6's C runtime libraries? thanks!

[Saurabh Garg]

why do you want to link with vc6 runtime, is there any specific reason do it? -Saurabh

[Chintoo723]

Saurabh.Garg wrote:

why do you want to link with vc6 runtime, is there any specific reason do it?

Oh yeah, so that I dont have to expect msvcrt7 dlls on the end user system. thanks!

[Monty2]

Well install both VC6 and VS2005, Create the project in VC6 and then try opening in VS2005 should work.

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[oshah]

The only way I'd expect this to work is if you disabled exceptions, disabled /GS support, used /NODEFAULTLIB, provided your own mainCRTStartup, and removed most use of the new CRTs. But if you've done all of this, you may as well static link, to remove all dependence on any CRT DLLs.