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Windows requires Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable

Open sugoidogo opened this issue 6 years ago • 2 comments

On a fresh Windows 10 system, the following files need to be installed, or programs will exit with uninformative error codes: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52685 This is often not an issue since many windows programs need these and the end-user is likely to already have them installed. Since no information is provided by the program when they aren't included, it should be noted in the README that these will need to be installed.

sugoidogo avatar Oct 29 '19 20:10 sugoidogo

Why wouldn't a user have these installed?

nomad-software avatar Oct 29 '19 21:10 nomad-software

If there's no program on a computer that uses msvc, then there'd be no reason to install the redist(s). On my personal computers, for example, my software which uses tkd is the only software that needs these packages, so it's very confusing when I run it for the first time and get a crash. Like I said before, it's definitely not a common issue, but when it arises it's hard to solve because there are no error messages, so it would be pertinent information for any developer who uses tkd.

sugoidogo avatar Oct 29 '19 21:10 sugoidogo