Summary:
I've written an ANSI C program in Visual Studio 2005 but can’t figure out how to deploy it.

The Program:
The program is strict ANSI C. I've written one .h header file and use many of the standard ANSI C libraries. I've written and debugged it in Visual Studio 2005 on a Windows XP Pro platform. Even when I shut down Visual Studio the .exe file works great.

The Problem:
I now want to move it to another Windows XP Pro machine which has all the .net libraries up to date, but does not have Visual Studio. When I move the .exe file that executes perfectly on the development machine to the other machine I get "...failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect."

Already Tried:
I've carefully read the MSDN article: "How to: Deploy a Setup and Deployment Project" and tried to follow it's instructions. But I have no DLLs and many of the steps don't seem to apply to ANSI C. When I get to the end and try the resulting .exe on the other machine, it, too, gives the same message.

Any suggestion?

You need to download the "redistributable" files installer from Microsoft and install it on any appropriate machine that does not have the development environment installed. See:

www.microsoft.com


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