DO NOT REPLY [Bug 41538] - Unable to run Tomcat as a Windows service under JDK 1.6

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------- Additional Comments From cowwoc@bbs.darktech.org  2007-03-02 14:10 -------
Mladen, I think you are mistaking two different bugs here.

The first issue is that in older builds of JDK6 could not find msvcr71.dll and
poped up a dialog box when you ran java from command-line. This has been fixed
in JDK6 final. See: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6372216

The second issue (totally unrelated to the first) is that Tomcat does not ship
msvcr71.dll as part of its installer even though Microsoft's deployment guide
clearly requires this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/_crt_c_run.2d.time_libraries.asp

I quote: "An application should use and redistribute msvcr71.dll, and it should
avoid placing a copy or using an existing copy of msvcr71.dll in the system
directory. Instead, the application should keep a copy of msvcr71.dll in its
application directory with the program executable."

Just because the JRE happens to redistribute msvcr71.dll itself does not mean
that Tomcat is not required to do the same. The point of an installer is to
unpack the software and fully configure it. By asking users to manually add
JAVA_HOME/bin to their PATH (where is this documented even?) you are completely
missing this point.

In my humble view you have two options:

1) Follow the Microsoft deployment guide and redistribute msvcr71.dll with
Tomcat. Every application I know does this.

2) Alternatively, if you insist on reusing msvcr71.dll shipped with the JRE,
Tomcat's installer should either copy it into the tomcat/bin directory or modify
tomcat5.exe to explicitly look for it in jre/bin.

The existing error message is extremely cryptic and very hard to figure out.
Please reconsider fixing this as soon as possible.

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