[vtkusers] VTK, MSVS and Quicktime

[Gib Bogle]

According to the person, installing the MSVC distributables alone  
wasn't sufficient.  But now that you mention it, I seem to recall that  
they require a special installation, i.e. it isn't necessarily enough  
to have them in the same directory as the executable.

I'm sure I've done this before, it's the kind of info that just seems  
to slip away :-(

Thanks
Gib

Quoting David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>:

> 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
>



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