Run-time Requirements
Gdiplus.dll is included with Windows XP. For information about which operating systems are required to use a particular class or method, see the More Information section of the documentation for the class or method. GDI+ is available as a redistributable for Windows NT 4.0 SP6, Windows 2000, Windows 98, and Windows Me. To download the latest redistributable, see http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/psdkredist.htm .
Note If you are redistributing GDI+ to a downlevel platform or a platform that does not ship with that version of GDI+ natively, install Gdiplus.dll in your application directory. This puts it in your address space, but you should use the linker's /BASE option to rebase the Gdiplus.dll to prevent address space conflict.
第一段的意思是除XP系统以外,其它系统不自己带gdiplus.dll。
但第二段就不是很明白了,既然系统不自带,而且又把这个DLL放到了自己的application directory,又怎么可能还会产生后面所说的“address space conflict”?