Compiler wrong settings?

[Oneday]

Hi all,

I'm experiencing with C++ but I've the next problem:

When I send my .exe file to people who has not installed Visual Studio, the program does not work:

"Could not find MSVCR100.dll"

Does anyone know how I can solve this? Do I have to include this DLL file to my program, in that case: how?

Greets

[hanst99]

Just distribute the file "MSVCR100.dll" along with your program - or make them install the msvc runtime.

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=5555

[Oneday]

Thanks a lot! Problem solved. :)

[LB]

Noooo! Do not do that, it is a horrible solution.

Change your build configuration from Debug to Release.
This removes the dependency, makes the EXE smaller, and it runs faster.

[hanst99]

MSVCR100.dll is still required for release builds. They just don't require MSVCR100D.dll anymore.

[LB]

Are you sure? That sounds stupid...maybe in the Release settings it just needs to be changed from Multithreaded Executable to Executable (or something along those lines)? I seem to remember something like this...

[1yR4jE8b]

You can statically link to the runtime by passing the /MT switch to the compiler.

Edit: You can do this from within Visual Studio by using:

Tools -> Options -> C++ -> Code Generation -> Runtime Library

and setting it to: Multi-threaded (/MT) or Multi-threaded Debug (/MTd)