Package Visual C++ Redistributable 2013 Binaries with App

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A prerequiste of my WPF app is Visual C++ Redistributable 2013 to be installed on the machine.

Instead of having the user have to install the executable below I'd like to just package the binaries along with my App.

How can I get at these DLLs?

I shouldn't have to download/install a copy of VS2013 in order to get at them do I?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40784)

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wpfvisual-c++visual-studio-2013

2 Answers

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You're looking for the VC++ 2013 runtime redistributable package. Microsoft publishes these C++ runtime redists explicitly for this purpose.

Bundle the one for your target architecture and run it automatically during installation. It's only a few MB.

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I ended up installing the VC++ 2013 runtime redistributable on the machine and searched through c:\windows\system32 for the following binaries:

  • msvcr120.dll
  • msvcp120.dll
  • mfc120.dll
  • mfc120u.dll
  • mfcm120.dll
  • mfcm120u.dll

Including those with my app worked!