[PLUG-Devel] development IDE's

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On 4/11/06, coberr at scottsdaleins.com <coberr at scottsdaleins.com> wrote:
> Perhaps you are installing to machines that already have the run-time
> installed?  In other words, you have not deployed to a clean  machine -
> like a clients.  Or maybe your NSIS installer is doping it for you.
>
> The point is you cannot install the latest MS C-runtime onto a machine
> without it installed simply by copying it.  If the machine already has the
> latest runtime, then you will not have this problem.   You have to build a
> special set-up package to properly install them.  Simply copying does not
> work.  The great part is that the setup packages built by MS Visual Studio
> require .Net !!!!
>
> Anyway - Here is a link describing the situation and solution - if you
> google it there are millions more:
> http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread263241.html
>

Ah, the windows side-by-side crap, yes I have seen that before, but it
can be easily worked around by compiling against the runtime as a
static library, it increases the size of your executable, but then you
don't have to worry about issues like this.

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