Missing Api-ms-win-core-errorhandling-l1-1-1.dll on Visual Studio 2015 under Windows 7

Question

I'm using Visual Studio 2015 under Windows 7 and I'm not capable to run any programs because of missing Api-ms-win-core-errorhandling-l1-1-1.dll, independently which of the target platform version I choose (Available are 8.1 and 10).

In my folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Redist\ucrt\DLLs, only version l1-1-0.dll is available. I tried out different Windows Kit 10 versions, but the required api dll's were not available.

Does anyone know how to fix this problem? 1.) How can I bring VS2015 to use older versions of Api-ms-win-core-**.dlls or 2.) How can I update my existing Api-ms-win-core-*.dlls to newer versions?

Thank you for any responses

Answer 1

Compile your code with the Visual Studio 2015 – Windows XP (v140_xp) platform toolset to generate code which is compatible for Windows XP/Vista/7.

Based on your comment I see you used the qt-opensource-windows-x86-winrt-msvc2015-5.7.0.exe which is for Store Based apps. So this explains why you get a message that dependency files are not found.

Install the non WinRT files of QT to solve the issue.