[windows] Visual C++ executable and missing MSVCR100d.dll

I know this has been asked in other places and answered, but I'm having issues with MS Visual Studio 2010. I've developed a C++ executable but if I run the Release version on a machine that doesn't have the VC++ runtime library (ie, msvcr100d.dll), I get the "program cannot start because msvcr100d.dll is missing from your computer" error.

This is weird for two reasons:

• Why is it trying to link with the debug version of the redistributable?
• I tried applying this fix, setting the runtime library setting to /MT instead of /MD (multi-threaded DLL), but that only made the problem worse (if I manually copied msvcr100d.dll, it then said it couldn't find msvcp110.dll).

How can I package the runtime library with my executable so that I can run it on machines that don't have MS VC 2010 or the redistributable installed?

I know it's considered a security risk to include a copy of the DLL since it won't ever be updated, but my goal is just to send this executable to a few friends in the short term.

This problem explained in MSDN Library and as I understand installing Microsoft's Redistributable Package can help.

But sometimes the following solution can be used (as developer's side solution):

In your Visual Studio, open Project properties -> Configuration properties -> C/C++ -> Code generation and change option Runtime Library to /MT instead of /MD

Debug version of the vc++ library dlls are NOT meant to be redistributed!

Debug versions of an application are not redistributable, and debug versions of the Visual C++ library DLLs are not redistributable. You may deploy debug versions of applications and Visual C++ DLLs only to your other computers, for the sole purpose of debugging and testing the applications on a computer that does not have Visual Studio installed. For more information, see Redistributing Visual C++ Files.

I will provide the link as well : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa985618.aspx

For me the problem appeared in this situation:

I installed VS2012 and did not need VS2010 anymore. I wanted to get my computer clean and also removed the VS2010 runtime executables, thinking that no other program would use it. Then I wanted to test my DLL by attaching it to a program (let's call it program X). I got the same error message. I thought that I did something wrong when compiling the DLL. However, the real problem was that I attached the DLL to program X, and program X was compiled in VS2010 with debug info. That is why the error was thrown. I recompiled program X in VS2012, and the error was gone.

I got the same error.

I was refering a VS2010 DLL in a VS2012 project.

Just recompiled the DLL on VS2012 and now everything is fine.

Usually the application that misses the .dll indicates what version you need – if one does not work, simply download the Microsoft visual C++ 2010 x86 or x64 from this link:

For 32 bit OS:Here

For 64 bit OS:Here