Clearscript files cannot be found on host

Question

Like a lot of others I\'m receiving the following error when deploying my ASP.Net MVC application:

Cannot load V8 interface assembly; verify that the

Answer 1

To be clear this exception is not always caused by a missing ClearScriptV8-32.dll, ClearScriptV8-64.dll, v8-ia32.dll or v8-x64.dll. Oftentimes the issue is that a dll referenced by one of the aforementioned dlls cannot be found. In cases where the appropriate dlls are on the server installing the appropriate Visual C++ Redistributable will usually solve this transitive dependency issue.

According to the project's discussion forum ClearScript no longer supports Visual Studio 2012. Meaning the version of the Visual C++ Redistributable that needs to be installed on your server is dependent on the version of ClearScript your project is utilizing:

• ClearScript Versions 5.0 - 5.3: Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012
• ClearScript Versions 5.4 - .....: Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2013