The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0150002)

Question

I\'m trying to compile an SFML program I\'ve writting in Visual C++ 2010. It compiles fine, but when I run the executable I get this error:

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Answer 1

This is probably caused by SFML being compiled with another version of Visual C++ (I guess it's 2008 or even 2005). You are apparently missing the corresponding manifest file and msvc*.dll libraries. I would suggest recompiling SFML yourself using VS 2010 as it will save you a lot of trouble with manifest tweaking.