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I was asked to download the specified DLL after running one of my apps on a secondary computer. The only problem is whether or not it should have been required. I obviously code in Visual Studio, but it is in pure "C" and a Win32 project, so I'm just wondering if this is normal.

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  • are you trying to run a debug build as opposed to a release build on the machine without VS? – camelccc Oct 14 '14 at 00:37
  • Nope. It is a release build. If it was a debug build, then it would have required MSVCR120D.dll. – datOverflow Oct 14 '14 at 00:40
  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19706421/visual-studio-2013-msvcr120-to-msvcr100 – camelccc Oct 14 '14 at 00:44
  • Redistributable package worked for me. Does anyone know if this is normal for a pure "C" program? – datOverflow Oct 14 '14 at 00:51
  • always - unless you change the linkage see answer below, or in the linked question in my comment. I always build release with static linkage as its a pain if you then want to run on another machine that may or may not have the runtime. if pure c the difference in file size will be negligable. – camelccc Oct 14 '14 at 00:56

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if you don't want to load CRTs, change run time library to static library. (MT)

or you need these dlls in installed visual studio\VC\redist

//after your comments//

MSxx##D.dll D means Debug. if you link any library built with debug run-time, the exe needs debug runtime library

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