rubén, you da man! i actually briefly considered the possibility of a change in that regard, but immediately discarded it as preposterous. some dll related file/directory handling issue seemed more likely to me. :D seriously though, i much prefer the "traditional" way for applications like...

wow, thanks for responding so quickly and right on point, ruben! i had no idea those dlls were right there already, how very convenient and of course much better than gathering random versions from wherever. :) thanks for the security warning too. as with all potentially fishy downloads, i did check...

hi everyone! i followed will_27's instructions and successfully created an exe, which i then put in the directory where my v17 exe is located, noticing that the self-built one is considerably smaller in size (8888 kb vs 14361 kb). upon launch, it required a few additional dlls (libgcc_s_seh-1.dll, l...