Having had a similar problem with deploying a DOSBox built in VC++2010, I'm wondering whether emendelson's problem was manifest related. The one I built without re-compiling the sdl kept including VS 2008 assembly information in the manifest and I think this was because SDLmain.lib had been built …

Many thanks for the quick reply and sharing DosBox with the world 😉. It sounds like this might best be handled as a patch then if I want to give it a try? I'd still be interested for users to post here if they have a similar requirement.

Hi I'm interested to canvas opinion on whether other users might find it useful to call external processes through something like a 'call' or 'start' command within the shell? I would have thought there were quite a few windowified DOS applications (games or otherwise) that make calls to supporting …