c++ - Application has failed to start because MSVCP100D.dll was not found, reinstalling app may work

Question

I googled on this and realized there are probably several causes to this so I will describe my scenario.

This happens when my application tries to load a .dll file built in another version of Visual Studio (2010), if I build the same project on Visual Studio 2008 the DLL file loads just fine...

I don't know if it matters, but Visual Studio 2010 DLL file version is built on Windows 7 x32, and Windows Vista 64-bit is on the other side with Visual Studio 2008.

Answer 1

If you link dynamically to the MSVC runtime then you need to install that runtime on every machine that will run your app.

Note that in this case you appear to be linking to the debug version of the runtime, it is not normal to distribute apps linked against the debug version of the runtime.