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Sure. Eon seems to have no idea what they're doing or why this problem is so hard. I heard scuttlebutt that they're shipping Microsoft DLLs. That's a big no-no in our offices.

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> I heard scuttlebutt that they're shipping Microsoft DLLs. That's a big no-no in our offices.

Yes, exactly the same redistributable MSVC and Direct3D libs most games ship with. What's wrong with that?

Do the licenses for those redistributable libraries permit this use? I believe that historically the answer was "no, the license only permits its use on Windows", but I don't know what the current status of this is.

I am not sure if you can disclose that, but have you been approached by CD Projekt to do the porting work of Witcher 2?

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