redistributable

it's been a long while since I've used VS 2010 and C++, and as I'm getting back to using it, I'm running into the same problems that plagued me last year: the exe's that I compile do not run well on older machines that do not have the correct C++ runtimes. I do not even know what link to give them, and I told them to install this after they had an error that said "The program can't start because MSVCR100.dll is missing from your computer. Try Reinstalling the program to fix this problem. Click OK to close the application."). So I went in and set the code generation to /MT and disabled quite a

I'm working on a setup which wants to include the Microsoft.Web.Services3 (WSE 3.0) DLL . However, I typically do not like including Microsoft DLL's in our installs except by way of Microsoft's redistributables. There is both a developer and a redist install package available from Microsoft. So, as a best practice, should I include the single DLL in my install or refer them to one of the WSE 3.0 installs (assuming they do not already have it installed)? Usually, redistributing any of Microsoft DLLs outside of the redistributable package is forbidden by their EULA, so you might first want to

I wish to make my installer (visual studio setup) to install redistributable (Visual C++ 2013 redistributable x86) in case it isn't installed on the PC or install the necessary dll for my program. I don't wish to set a launch condition. If possible, I wish that the installation of the redistributable to be silent. Any suggestion ? That's what the Prerequisites button is for in the setup project's Properties. You'll need to set a configuration (such as Release) before you see that button. That's where you add the VC++ runtimes. That will generate a setup.exe that users run - it will install any

I am planning to use py2exe to make an application developped with Python 2.6. It seems that my app need the VC redistribuables : http://www.py2exe.org/index.cgi/Tutorial#Step5 I've read this tutorial and the redistribuables license agreement and I am not sure if I can freely redistribute these files with my program. (I don't have VS2008 license) Can I bundle the redistribs into an installer and make the installation transparent for the user or do they have to download the files by their own from Microsoft website? Thanks in advance I think you should be fine if you simply include the

I have a question very similar to this one but the answer does not work for me. Software I am maintaining the setup for depends on VC++ 2008 (SP1, precisely), thus I need to find a solution to install VCRedist if not yet installed. I understand the correct way would be to build msi with merge modules, but it's not on my hands. The answer of the duplicate question I am referring to (the accepted one) does not work for me because every tiny release (e.g. 9.0.30729.01 vs 9.0.30729.17) has proper GUIDs, which I am not able to guess or predict for future versions. Furthermore, I reckon that this

I'm writing a simple C++ application in Visual Studio. It also has a setup project. It works well on my development machine, but when I'm installing this application on user's machine it requires Visual C++ Redistributable Package . I'm wondering why does my application require C++ Redistributable ? Standard C++ runtime library is shipped with Windows, isn't it? The only version of the C runtime library which is shipped by Microsoft with most of 32 bit Windows versions is msvcrt.dll . This library provides a typical set of library functions required by C and C++ programs. These include string

Using Visual Studio, I have built an C++ application running in 32bit. It will be deployed both to 32-bit and 64-bit Windows servers. It won't be run in 64-bit mode (but rather under WoW). Should I include both the 32-bit and 64-bit Visual C++ redistributable, and install 32bit on 32bit Windows and 64bit on 64 bit Windows, or is it enough to just install the 32bit redistributable? It is enough to install the 32bit redistributable. EDIT: I commented below on a misleading answer, but the answer is you only need the 32-bit redistributables, as Karel Petranek answered first. This is not an answer.

While I am trying to install vc_redist.x64.exe on Windows 8.1 getting following error: Failed to configure per-machine MSU package. Soman Dubey Posting answer to my own question as I found it here and was hidden in bottom somewhere - https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/64baed8c-b00c-40d5-b19a-99b26a11516e/visual-c-redistributable-for-visual-studio-2015-rc-fails-on-windows-server-2012?forum=vssetup This is because the OS failed to install the required update Windows8.1-KB2999226-x64.msu. However, you can install it by extracting that update to a folder (e.g. XXXX), and

I have an old dll that uses the Microsoft Visual C++ 2003 (7.1) run time package. Unfortunately I don't have that DLL around anymore. Short of reinstalling VS2003, is there another way to get the run time redistributable dll? BrainSlugs83 Storm's answer is not correct. No hard feelings Storm, and apologies to the OP as I'm a bit late to the party here (wish I could have helped sooner, but I didn't run into the problem until today, or this stack overflow answer until I was figuring out a solution.) The Visual C++ 2003 runtime was not available as a seperate download because it was included with