[CMake] InstallRequiredSystemLibraries.cmake and Redistribution of the shared C runtime component in Visual C++

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

James Bigler wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Bill Hoffman
> <bill.hoffman at kitware.com <mailto:bill.hoffman at kitware.com>> wrote:
>
>     James Bigler wrote:
>
>
>         Well, I was using VS 2005 64 bit with SP 1.  I wonder if there
>         is a similar bug or if there is something else going wrong
>         such as what Marcus Hanwall described.
>
>
>     I am not sure what your issue is, but I know I have done this many
>     times...
>
>     -Bill
>
>
> I checked the version numbers of the DLLs, and even checked the md5sum
> and everything was the same between the dlls in the WinSxS folder and
> the ones I'm distributing.  It failed on two clean systems without the
> vcredist install.  I guess I'll run vcredist as Microsoft suggests and
> see if I can trouble shoot later.
>
> It is a rather perplexing problem.
>
The link Bill supplied has all of the relevant information. In the
"Community Discussion" section the second comment provides three
possible workarounds. We are using the third of those when distributing
Avogadro packages for Windows. The version mismatch in the manifests of
the compiled executables and the manifest with the redistributable DLLs
is what causes the issue.

It seems that MS has no intention of fixing this issue. We have a clean
VM where we test new installers, as occasionally this change was lost
and the DLLs failed to load.

Marcus