无法在未安装 VS2017 的另一台机器上运行使用 VS2017 构建的 C++ 应用程序

Question

I have VS2017 installed on windows 10 machine and I am building my C++ code in it. when build success I am able to run that exe on same machine. But when I am copying that exe (with all dependent DLL's) on another winodws 10 machine where VS2017 is not installed its giving error "The code execution cannot proceed because urctbase.dll was not found" .

I copied those dll's (ucrtbase.dll vcrutime140.dll etc.) at the same location where exe resides and try to run it then its giving error "The application was unable to start correctly(0xc700000b). Click OK to close the application"

I installed VC Redistributable-2017 package to setup run time environment on that machine, but problem persists.

Can anyone help to resolve this issue?

Answer 1

it's difficult to get all the dependent DLLs of your program. I suggest you create setup project that can detect all these dependencies:

0- Put your project in release mode
1- install Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects from here
2- Add setup project to your VS solution

3- Add your program to the setup project

4- Choose primary output of your project

5- As you can see, visual studio detect all dll dependencies