Use Visual Studio 2012 and compile with older platform toolset?

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The problem

I\'m using Visual Studio 2012 to develop C++ DLLs. On some machines these DLLs can not be loaded, because the platform toolset, which is

Answer 1

I'd like to share some information, which I came across and figured out how to use them for my purpose.

Apparently it is a good option to use static linking. It didn't always work for me, but for a smaller project of mine, it works quite good. And the result is a DLL with no dependencies other than kernel32.dll and the like.

Simply use /MT for release configuration and /MTd for debug and you'll be fine.

The problem here is that a developer like me gets the current Visual Studio version, shortly after its release, but you can't really expect common users to have runtimes installed which are only a few weeks old. And installing different versions of Visual Studio just to use the old runtime is definitely not what you want.