Visual Studio 2013 msvcr120 to msvcr100

c++ dll visual-studio-2013 msvcr100.dll
BennX picture BennX · Oct 31, 2013 · Viewed 37.5k times · Source

Is it possible to change the restrib file to msvcr100 so other computers can run the program without having problems with the .dll file? If so how do i get that?

I do compile the program and other people can't use it because of the missing msvcr120.dll file. So it would be great if i could change that somehow.

Is it possible to install the Plattformtoolset without a older Visualstudio version?

Answer

Baldrick picture Baldrick · Oct 31, 2013

You have a few choices:

  1. Install VS2010 on the machine, and set the Platform Toolset option to v100.
  2. Install the Windows SDK v7.0A from here, which SHOULD / CAN add a new option to your Platform Toolset menu in VS2013. Getting this to work can be quite fiddly though. (It's rarely worked for me right out of the box). Note if you use MFC in your application, this option isn't any good for you - MFC libraries are not included with this SDK.
  3. Get your users to install the Microsoft VS 2013 C++ Redistributable Package from here, and carry on regardless.
  4. Statically link to the VS2013 runtimes, instead of using dynamic linking to the runtime DLLs. You can set this in the IDE through project settings under C/C++ > Code Generation > RunTime Library > Multi-threaded (/MT) or (/MTd). All the needed code will be compiled into your app, which will make the files bigger, but will avoid the issues you mention.

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