Phobos and Tango deep dependancies

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Gilles G. wrote:
> DavidL Wrote:
>> If those DLLs exist, then no problem at all. You gain nothing negative.
>> To kill those dependencies of DLLs would be troublesome AFAIC.
> 
> This is exactly the problem. Some DLLs may not exist on some systems.
> 
> This is the case for the man who develops the application which I wrote a DLL for: some delay-load DLLs are missing on his system. As these are delay-load DLLs it doesn't crash (yet), but this worries him very much.
> 
> Any idea anybody?
> 
> --
> Gilles

Are you sure this is a real problem?  C (msvc) hello world apps 
delay-load user32.dll, while DMD links with it.  That might be the only 
difference here.  I believe that win95 and later comes with this file.