Running vc2008 debug builds on non-dev machines

Question

I\'m building my app in vc2008 and testing it on a network of machines.

Is there any way, other than installing Visual Studio 2008, to run a debug build of a C++ pro

Answer 1

Read this blog post on which files you need to be able to run debug flavor of your app and where to get them. You can't officially redistribute them to third parties however.

If you have an installer for your app, there's also a merge module you can build in to deploy the debug runtime on machines without Visual Studio. This is intended only for testing purposes, of course. The merge modules are located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Merge Modules.