[vtkusers] VTK, MSVS and Quicktime

[David Gobbi]

Hi Gib,

This sort of problem is very common when people distribute software
that was built with Visual Studio.  C++ software built with MSVC 2005
will only work on systems that have MSVCR80.DLL and MSVCP80.DLL.
A base Windows XP system does not have these DLLs.  I'd bet, though,
that Quicktime installs them, and that is why installing quicktime
made everything work.

Here's the solution: when you distribute your software, you MUST
distribute MSVCR80.DLL and MSVCP80.DLL along with your executable,
I'm not 100% sure but I think this is even true if your executable is
statically linked.  These DLLs are the C and C++ runtime libraries for
MSVC.

 - David


On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Gib Bogle <g.bogle at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> I sent my Qt/VTK application, built with MSVS 8 2005 on Windows XP, with
> statically linked VTK-5.4 libraries, to someone interested in trying it out.
>  He was unable to get the program to run on his XP machine until he
> installed Quicktime.  I wonder if anyone has any ideas about why Quicktime
> should have any influence on this program's execution.
>
> Thanks
> Gib