I am a bit confused with which version of the MSVC Redistributables for Visual Studio 2013 I need to include with my installer when people install my application.
I have been including and auto-installing what I thought was the correct vcredist_x64.exe, but upon installation on a brand new Win10 box, it needed a different vcredist_x64.exe.
How do I know which is the correct redistributable for my developed-with-visual-studio-2013 application when there are multiple versions of the x64 vcredist_x64.exe?
I also noticed that there is "update 5" for visual studio 2013 - if I install this update, does that change the redistributable I need to include in my installer?
This is the official page where you can download the latest redistributable: Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013. There is also Redist directory with appropriate installers somewhere inside Visual Studio 2013 installation directory.
It is possible that you had redist for older version of VS2013 that you used for building your application.
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I read all of the questions and answers which are related or asked before and I still didn't find an appropriate answer to my problem.
I am using python 3.6.5 and pip(and setuptools) is up to date.
I am installed Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017 from here:
https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2017
when using pip install, I still get the error:
Microsoft Visual C++ is required
PS: I want to install airflow
This problem was solved on a computer having Visual Studio Community 2017 v15.5.2 and the Visual Studio Installer v1.16.1247.518 installed.
The steps used are as follows:
Start the Visual Studio Installer
Visual Studio Installer showed a Installed section that stated that Visual
Studio Community 2017. In that section was a drop-down titled More. The drop-
down option Modify was selected.
Visual Studio Installer then showed "tabs" titled Workloads, Individual
components, Language packs and Installed locations. The tab "Individual components" was selected.
Scrolling down the list of Individual components, there was a section titled
Compilers, build tools, and runtimes. Under that section there was a VC++
2015.3 v140 toolset for desktop (x86,x64) option that was unchecked. The
option was then checked.
The Modify button located at the lower right part of the Visual Studio
Installer was pushed.
After waiting an unreasonably long amount of time, the installer finished
modifying the installation of Visual Studio Community 2017.
As always, your mileage may differ.
As per instructions here: https://www.scivision.co/python-windows-visual-c++-14-required/
Use vs_buildtools.exe and install only the windows 10 SDK.
Visual C++ Redistributable installs run-time libraries and can be used to run applications written with VC. But you need Visual C++ compiler! So install Build Tools.
I suggest using MinGW as the C compiler.
I have a programm using an GSL library which worked quite well with Visual Studio 2013. Now I set up a new Windows version and installed Visual Studio 2015 RC Community.
After that I can not compile the code anymore. After converting the code to the new tool set I got the error that some external symbols of the libraries could not be found. I think this has something to do with the fact, that the library was build with Visual C++ v120.
So is there a possiblilty to add this Compiler Version to the Studio? And does it work without trouble next to a new version installed. I do not want to install the older version of VS, because of the possibility of some troubles haveing to version parallel installed.
You can install VS2013 toolset version from your VS2015 installer without installing visual studio 2013. From the 2015 installer, select Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.0/8.1 Tools. Thats it.
Found it in a msdn forum (have to be the first time something is actually solved in a microsoft forum)
Install Visual Studio 2013
Open your Project in Visual Studio 2015
In the General page of the Project Properties, change the Platform Toolset to "Visual Studio 2013 (v120)"
You never have to open Visual Studio 2013; you just have to install it so that Visual Studio 2015 can find the toolset. (Unfortunately there is no way to install just the toolset.)
I have a Visual Studio project that I created in my previous PC (32-bit if that makes any difference). I recently got a new PC (64-bit) and I am trying to open the project and I am seeing the following error:
Unsupported
This version of Visual Studio does not have the following project types installed or does not support them. You can still open these projects in the version of Visual Studio in which they were originally created.
- ONew, "C:\temp\onb\ONewSln\ONew\ONew.csproj"
No changes required
These projects can be opened in this version of Visual Studio without changing them. They will continue to open in Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and in this version of Visual Studio.
- ONewWeb, "C:\temp\onb\ONewSln\ONewWeb\ONewWeb.csproj"
- ONewSln, "C:\temp\onb\ONewSln\ONewSln.sln"
Screenshot:
Is there a add-on or visual studio component that I have to download to make it work?
Please help me resolve the issue.
After doing some research and spending hours banging my head against the wall, I figured out how to resolve the issue.
You have to install Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012.
Open up the Web Platform Installer and if you don’t have it installed, download and install it. Search for Office Developer Tools and install it.
This will enable you to open the project without any issue.
Usually you can open VS2010 SP1 files in VS2012. But after opening and on compiling you may get some errors of missing packages. Then you have to install the missing packages. Check this out: Visual Studio 2012 compatibilty.
Some solutions, projects, files, and other assets that you created in Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will run without modification in Visual Studio 2012, but others have to be upgraded. The above document describes how various kinds of assets behave in these two versions of Visual Studio.
If you use both Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2010 SP1, you can create and modify projects and files in either version as long as you don't add features that require Visual Studio 2012.
VS2012 may convert projects when you first open them, but the changes are (except noted in the document linked) backward compatible with VS2010.
So here is my situation: We have some applications built using VC++ 2010, but others are now built with VC++ 2013.
In the past, when setting up a client machine, only VC++ 2010 Redistributable was installed, but with the development of some of these applications now in VC++ 2013 we need to install the VC++ 2013 Redistributable.
I know that the Redistributable packages are installed side by side and that applications developed in VC++ 2010 will go to their appropriate file set if it exists on the machine.
But can a VC++ 2010 project run reliably with just the VC++ 2013 redistributable installed?
This question occurred to be when I saw that Microsoft named the VC++ 2010 and 2013 redistributable install files the same. For example, vcredist_x86.exe.
Thanks for your time!
No, your VS2010 built app will need msvcr100.dll (etcetera), the VS2013 installer will deploy msvcr120.dll
Doing anything to force VS2010 to use the VS2013 runtime library is very unlikely to turn out well. The new C++11 language standard has caused lots of upheaval in the runtime libraries. The good kind of upheaval, but not exactly very compatible with old compilers.
You must therefore install the VS2010 runtime libraries as well.
I have installer that contains vcredist_x86.exe / vcredist_x64.exe so if user machine does not have VC++ redistributable installed then I install it.
However, the size of vcredist_x86.exe / vcredist_x64.exe is quite large ~5MB, which may be a problem for a small application.
Is there a direct (and permanent) link to Microsoft site that I could use instead of adding vcredist files to my installer?
Or may be there is even better way to solve such problem?
P.S. I am aware that user machine would have to be online - this is OK.
Here are the direct links for MSVC 2010 redists:
MSVC 2010 SP1 Redist x86 English
http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/6/D/C6D0FD4E-9E53-4897-9B91-836EBA2AACD3/vcredist_x86.exe
MSVC 2010 SP1 Redist x64 English
http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/8/0/A80747C3-41BD-45DF-B505-E9710D2744E0/vcredist_x64.exe
As you can see from those URLs, Microsoft is using UUIDs to index all their downloads, which looks like a good design decision and suggests that those links are indeed going to remain valid for a long time.
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package (x64)