I have developed a program using Intel Fortran called from Visual studio, Community Edition 2015.
The Fortran code is a DLL and the final product is a .exe.
I can run this .exe wherever it is located on my computer including from a disc drive. However, when I copy the .exe to another computer, it fails to run.
Obviously I need to prepare the program prior to delivery to another site. I have tried using ClickOnce with no success. What do you suggest?
Richard
Depending on compiler options used when your program is built, you typically need to install the Microsoft C++ and Intel Fortran redistributables onto computers that you want to run the program on. Your development machine already has these redistributables - they were installed when you installed Visual Studio and the Fortran compiler.
The redistributables for Visual Studio 2015 can be downloaded from https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=48145
The redistributables for Intel Fortran can be accessed from https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/articles/intel-compilers-redistributable-libraries-by-version.html
Depending on your circumstances and your method of deployment of your program, you can bundle installation of these redistributables with installation of your program and DLL.
Static linking to the runtime libraries may (exceptions exist) avoid a requirement for the redistributables, but static linking to the runtime is often inappropriate if you are distributing more than a single EXE.
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I'm very new to GUI programming in c++, thus I don't have that much experience.
I created myself a GUI for my programm using the Visual Studio 2017 CRL package and now I'm trying to make this exe available for everyone.
The application works fine for those who have Visual Studio or VC Runtime installed but for those who don't the programm throws something like: "vcruntime140.dll is missing on your computer to run this app".
I am not sure how to link these dll's in my programm so that EVERYONE is able to use it.
I'm also not quit sure how I would link dll's.
There's basically two options.
The Standard in the industry is to ship the Visual Studio 20xx Runtime Redistributable Installer alongside your program, and have it run before anyone tries to run your program themselves, to make sure that the .dll files are installed onto the target computer.
The other option is to change the way that the libraries are linked to the executable at compile-time. This is done with a flag in Visual Studio:
Basically, you want to change the Runtime Library field to either say Multi-Threaded or Multi-Threaded Debug depending on whether you're in Release or Debug mode, as opposed to "Multi-Threaded DLL", which is the default.
Note, however, that you need to make sure that every single library you're using was compiled the same way: if any of them were compiled using the DLL version of the Runtime Library, they'll interoperate with your code in funny ways, and the least of your problems will be that they'll need the DLLs installed anyways, defeating your effort.
Naturally, that's not an issue if all your libraries are Header-Only, but if any of them have been compiled, then you'll need to recompile them using the correct settings.
You need to install Visual Studio 2017 redistribuables on the machine (that's how it works for every version of Visual Studio).
However, I could not find any official link on Microsoft website (probably because this is not officially released yet)....
You probably need to use 2015 version (for which redistribuables are available here) and wait for 2017 to become an official release.
I am not so experienced with C++ and MS Visual Studio. I am currently having issue with releasing .exe and trying to run the program on different PC. In the program I'm using additional library (magick++). I've configured the Runtime Library in Visual Studio 2015 to Multi-threaded (/MT). I suppose, that with this configuration the .exe file should be running on different PCs, but when I try to run it, message with "CORE_RL_Magick++. dll is missing on this computer appears. Any idea, what might be wrong?
My second question is, if I would like to make a release with dynamic library /MD, how can I get the library to run it on different PC? Or do I have to install the library first (I mean if I have to install Imagemagick to the computer or is there some way I can get the nescessary library from the build in Visual Studio).
Thanks for every information.
Do you have CORE_RL_Magick++. dll in the path (including the directory that your exe program is running) somewhere on the computer that is failing.
The /MD and /MT commands effect what runtime is used, not what other libraries the program is dependant on.
So with /MT, it will compile a static version of the visual c libs into the exe, but if linked against the magic dll, it will still need that CORE_RL_Magick++. dll in order to run.
I think /MD is a better choice, for smaller size.
If you want to run program on other PC, you may need to install Visual Studio Redistributable (could be downloaded on Microsoft website) on the PC first.
Agree with Martin Zhai. I had this problem when attempting to run my program on another machine after upgrading to 2015. The DLL I wanted to use would not be found despite being local. Installing Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 fixed this.
I'm creating a C++ application using Visual Studio 2013 and using libraries such as FMOD and SDL. I'm trying to package the application to run on other machines through the .exe. I have all my library paths correct and dependencies referenced locally, but when I run the .exe on another machine I get the "MSCVP120D.dll not found" error.
I have installed the Visual Studio 2013 redistributable on these test machines (Since it's 120.dll) and yet the error persists.
As far as I'm aware, other than the libraries specified, which all work, I'm only using standard libraries and windows.h.
I have been told another option is to install the dll file locally and link it statically to the CRT, but honestly I don't know enough to know if this is a correct option or not.
For more information, I'm on a Windows 8.1 machine and have tested on Windows 8 and 7, with no success other than on my own machine.
You are compiling your program in debug-mode and linking to the MS C++ debug-runtime.
Change to release-configuration, and either compile it statically or preferably add the Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio to your deployment (the last part is not neccessary if it's already installed).
i get the following error when i try to run an exe on a x64 machine that was build for x86 CPU using the MC++ compiler (vs2010) on a x86 machine:
i already have visual studio 2012 (along with Visual C++ 2012 Update 4 redistributable- both x86 and x64) installed on this second (x64) machine.
A quick search tells me the "MSVCR100.dll" is already present in "C:\Windows\System32".
i tried to install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable but it exited with an error telling me that a superior version is already installed.
Please guide me what i am doing wrong. :)
Firstly, in 64-bit versions of Windows, 32-bit system executables and application extension files (aka DLLs) are placed in %systemroot%\SysWOW64 instead of %systemroot%\System32 (which, somewhat counterintuitively, contains 64-bit versions in a 64-bit Windows). So the SysWOW64 folder has to be checked for the x86/32-bit MSVC(++) DLLs.
Secondly, though installation of the corresponding visual studio version on the target machine or having accompanied the distributed program with the required C(++) DLLs should, theoretically, solve the problem, it's not necessary. It's sufficient to have the corresponding MSVC++ redistributable package installed (i.e. e.g. Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x86 redistributable package in this particular case).
Notes:
The aforementioned info are theoretically correct but damaged Windows installations or ... may not conform.
Including the C++ DLLs with the distributed program is acceptable (and possibly a conservative but correct decision) but installing a Visual Studio version solely to be able to use the DLLs in question definitely isn't.
As a side note, C++ redistributable packages don't install the debug versions of the DLLs so installation of or access to a corresponding Visual Studio version is necessary for running debug-compiled applications.
Your application needs the dll for VS2010. you should place MSVCR100.dll and MSVCP100.dll from your x86 machine beside your exe. You can also install VS2010 alongside your current VS2012. then you should also install the Service Pack1 for VS2010 to work properly. After installing VS2010 you have access to both mentioned dlls and also you probably don't need to copy them to your exe directory.
I am running Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop on a 64 bit machine with windows 8.
I create a completely new Win32 Console Application (in C++) and accept the default options. I then build and run the solution in both debug and release modes and it works all find and dandy. Next I configure the include and library directories for the dynamic SFML library. I link to the debug and release .lib files and put the debug and release .dll files in the proper directories. I then add some simple code which uses the library, build and run the application in debug mode and I get this error: "The program can't start because MSVCR100D.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem." If I build and run the application in release mode it works with no errors. (And yes I have the redistributables installed 32 and 64 bit.) Now from what I understand and according to this thread that .dll file is for debugging only and is not included in the redistributable package (which would explain why it doesn't work in debug mode). The answer says that developers have it installed with visual studio by default. This is obviously not the case as evidence from the error and I've reinstalled visual studio and restarted my computer twice now.
In conclusion, how do I simply compile my solution in debug mode without getting this error?
I'm afraid someone will mark this as a duplicate so here we go:
LINK - "...you appear to be linking to the debug version of the runtime, it is not normal to distribute apps linked against the debug version of the runtime."
Doesn't pertain to me because I'm not distributing this app, just trying to run it in debug mode.
LINK - "I compiled my program using Microsoft visual c++ 2010 Express Edition and tried to run it on another machine that did not have the same compiler."
This person get's the error when he runs what hes compiled on a different computer, not when actually compiling the application.
LINK - "If you get this error for your release build..."
I dont.
LINK - "You can compile your project in "Release"..."
My project is not ready to be released therefore I should compile my project in debug mode.
MSVCR100D.dll is the dll for Visual Studio 10, so somewhere something is depending on it (the SFML dlls?). Whatever you compile (in debug mode) with Visual Studio 2012 will require MSVCR110D.dll, which you should have available on your machine as part of the installation.
I suggest you build SFML yourself on your own version of Visual Studio, it's pretty easy. In fact, the binaries available on the site as part of the SFML 2.0 RC are rather old and you'll do yourself a huge favor by building from the latest sources, as a lot of fixes and improvement were applied in the meantime.
(Also, definitely use 2.0 instead of 1.6. The site is rather misleading, but on the SFML forums virtually everyone will recommend you use the last version)
This message generally states that the dll is referred to directly or indirectly in your application and is missing.
The 'D' at the end show us this is the Debug version of the file, this is DLL file is provided with the Visual Studio 2010 installation. So the MSVCR100D.dll would be provided with the installation of Visual Studio 2010.
Of course, you could be missing other versions 2008 (MSVCR90D) 2010 (MSVCR100D) 2012 (MSVCR110D) or the 2013 (MSVCR120D), each dll is provided according to the Visual Studio version.
There are a few ways to solve this:
Check to be sure that you're compiling all the components of your
project in Release mode. If this does not solve the issue continue
to the next steps.
You could solve this locally by installing Visual Studio 2010 on your
machine. This is not what I would recommend, but it would surely
overcome the issue
You could also download the file from this third party website and
copy it to your projects bin:
http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?msvcr100d
This option is the LEAST recommended option.
Run dependency Walker and see what file depends on the MSVCR100D.dll
and the try and fix that file in order to break your dependency. You can download depends here: http://www.dependencywalker.com/
Check to be sure that you're project is linking the correct version of
the CRT and any other libraries you may be using (e.g., MFC, ATL,
etc.)
Note: Installing the redistributables alone will NOT solve this problem, since the redistributables only contain the release version of the file MSVCR100.dll (notice no 'D')
MSVCR100D is part of the 2010 Visual Studio package - indicating that some components of your system are compiled with the older version of Visual Studio, so you will need to install the Visual Studio 2010 version - you can probably still develop with the 2012 version, just as long as [parts of] the 2010 is on the machine.
Or you need to recompile some components that your application depends on to use the 2012 (msvcr110d) libraries - if you have all the source code, that would be my preferrred method.