Missing msvcr100.dll

visual-studio-2010 build msvcr100.dll
Ichibann picture Ichibann · Sep 22, 2010 · Viewed 17.1k times · Source

I made a program in Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 7 64-bit. When I try to run it on Windows XP 32-bit I got message that msvcr100.dll is missing. When I try to copy that file from Win7 to WInXP I got message that msvcr100.dll is wrong. How to set building in VS so msvcr100.dll would not be necessary?

Answer

JoeG picture JoeG · Sep 22, 2010

First you need to make sure you're building a 32 bit executable - 64 bit ones won't run on 32 bit Windows.

Then you can either...

  • Ship the 32 bit redistributables with your application.
  • Remove the runtime dependency altogether and link statically to the C++ runtimes. To do this, set Project -> Properties -> Configuration Properties -> C/C++ -> Code Generation -> Runtime Library to Multi-threaded (/MT).

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