Re: vcredist question (slightly off topic)
Goran wrote:
Hi all!
(VS2008)
In our installation procedure, we install vcredist (we link to C and C+
+ runtime and MFC dlls). So far that worked fine.
However, we got a complaint from one client that he can't load one of
our *.dlls. Message comes from some VB6 program, so it's a bit
obscure, it's not standard system message that pops up when some SxS
assembly (e.g. MFC) isn't installed. Upon inspection, we realized that
our dll depends on MFC 9.0.30729.17. And this, this is the VS2008 SP1
version.
Now, this is completely amazing, because the machine that builds
everything is still on RTM version of VS 2008, that is, 9.0.21022.8.
And indeed, C/C++ RT and MFC versions on that machine in $VS2008\VC
\redist\x86 are 9.0.21022.8. On top of that, the machine in question
has no version 9.0.30729.17 in WinSxS either!
Client installed 9.0.30729.17 version of vcredist_x86.exe on his
machine and that helped.
What, in the name of god, has happened!? Help?
(What I am going to do, clearly, is to put VS up-to date on this
particular machine and cross fingers all is fine from now on; however,
there is something wrong and I don't know why).
TIA,
Goran.
The follow-up question to this is: WHY don't you have SP1 on your build machine?? There are a lot of important fixes in that.
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