I compiled a x64 application in win32 development environment.. When I run that binary in 64 bit intel machine , the following error is displayed
“The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail.”..
In the event log it is mentioned that
“Activation context generation failed for . Dependent Assembly icrosoft.VC80.DebugCRT,processorArchitecture=”amd64″,publicKeyToken=”1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b”,type=”win32″,version=”8.0.50608.0″ could not be found. Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis.
What is this issue and how to resolve this problem ?and architecture of the target system is amd64.
C:\>set | findstr /i amd64
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=AMD64
The error indicates, that you are trying to run a debug build on a machine that has no debug C runtime installed. The debug runtime is not redistributable, so your current application will only run on a machine with VS2005 installed.
To fix this issue, change the build flavour from Debug to Release and try again.
You also need to make sure, the lates C runtime libraries are available on the target machine. This page holds the lates VS2005 redistributable runtime installers for all supportet target platforms .