How to install VC80CRT debug runtimes without full visual studio 2005?

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Ben L picture Ben L · May 10, 2010 · Viewed 15.3k times · Source

I can't run a debug sdk application because it requires both VC 8 and VC 9 versions of the CRT. But it only requires visual studio 2008 for plugin dev, which is what I need.

How do I install the debug runtimes from 2005 on to a Windows7 machine? I can't figure out how to make them run app local nor can I copy anything into the winSxS folder without a trusted installer.

Answer

Ganesh R. picture Ganesh R. · May 10, 2010

Refer to this post.

As per this the debug dlls can be found at:

For Visual Studio 2005:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\redist\Debug_NonRedist\x86

For Visual Studio 2008:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\redist\Debug_NonRedist\x86

Also as per what I know you need not have these dlls in the WinSxS folder. Even if these dlls are present in the same directory as your application exe is, it will do. Anyways using debug dlls in production environment is not recommended.

In case you elevate your application, make sure you set the 'Start in' path to the application home/install directory or add the path to the VC++ debug dlls to the PATH environment variable.

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