Distributing VS 2010 Redistributable?
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| Hi, I noticed that Monkey GLFW games require the MS Visual Studio 2010 redistributable to be installed or the user could have missing DLL files when running. Can anyone give any suggestions on how to distribute the package? I noticed that it does not seem to have a completely silent install, and brings up an annoying repair/remove screen if the user tries installing. It's also a fairly large package. |
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| hmm... scratch that.. the flags on one site were just incorrect /q /norestart worked completely silent. |
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| Why so complicated? I just put two dll files into my distribution beside the executable: msvcp100.dll msvcr100.dll That's all you need (plus the OpenAL installation). |
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| Hi, > I noticed that Monkey GLFW games require the MS Visual Studio 2010 redistributable to be installed or the user could have missing DLL files when running Are you sure? The compiler settings should be set to link with static runtime libs. |
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| @xaron wasn't totally sure if the missing files were the same across all the different windows installs. @marksibly yes, it asked me for one of the ms visual studio 10 dll files when I was testing an installation of the game on another PC. After installing the redistributable the error went away. |
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| @JD0: That's what I've learned. No problems on my dev PCs because Visual Studio is installed everywhere. @Mark: Yes we are sure. ;) Just try any small project on a clean and fresh PC. You need to add both of the DLLs above. |
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| Hi, Ok, this can be fixed in MSVC - you need to change 'Runtime Library' in the C/C++ code generation options to non-dll versions. I was sure I'd done this for the default glfw target, but apparently not. Will be fixed for next version. If you prefer linking with the dll, then you'll have to change it back per project. Incidentally, found this along the way - very useful! http://www.dependencywalker.com/ |
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| That is a cool link Mark, very useful. |
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| Yep, very useful, thanks! |
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