How do you convert finished project into an application?

[tsaro]

Hello this is my first time posting on here. I just got finished with my c++ program that I was making on Visual Studio 2010. How can I turn my project into an Application.exe (I guess its called an executable file??) with Visual Studio 2010. I know this should be a very simple question to answer but I can't seem to find anything on the web that says how to do it..

[3hM2Nwbp]

An executable should be created when you run your program from within the IDE. Try looking near
C:\users\[Your User]\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\[Your Project]\[Debug -or- Release]\

*Edit - That's the path on my system, yours should be similar - or way off, one of the two, I'm sure of that :) .

[tsaro]

Thanks for the reply. I only had a debug folder and I didn't see it in there so I opened
project->properties and changed configuration to release then I copied my additional dependencies in linker->input->Additional Dependencies and compiled and ran it. To my delight there was a release folder with the executable inside :) .

Thanks for your help!

[sohguanh]

Please note if you are using M$ MFC classes, sometimes you need the Mfc42.dll or something similar when you install on another person PC.

I don't know if M$ MFC classes are still in use but 10 years ago when I play with VC++, it seems Mfc42.dll is not installed as part of Windows OS.

Now fast forward to 2011 I wonder if Windows 7 came pre-installed with Mfc42.dll

PS Anyone know M$ MFC is still in use or it has been replaced by .NET dll ?

[modoran]

You could link MFC statically or redistribute MFC dll with your application, or direct the user to download Visual Studio Redistributable, the choice is yours.