I created a program in VS2008 and windows 7 32bit. To get the program to work currently a SDK needs to be installed on the machine. I am trying to create an installer for my program so that the program will run without needing the sdk. In VS2008 I created an installer with merge modules and dependencies and all. If this program runs on Windows 7 32bit, it works like I expect it to. However it will not run on say windows xp 32bit or windows vista 32bit right now.
Right now the VS2008 installer auto detects the dependencies but i believe thats just for windows 7 as XP and Vista don’t work right.
I have dependency walker and have found the dependency of the programs to about 32000 different files…
I can’t include them all.
Is there a way that I can make VS2008 on windows 7 32bit find the dependencies for this program to run on other windows versions as well and just put them all in together?
Sorry its a bit long but its driving me crazy.
one of the low level files it was using depended on VS2005 and was not picked up. so it needed the Microsoft_VS80_CRT, ATL, MFC merge modules that only come with VS2005 which they don’t give you access to on microsoft. Asked somebody with VS2005 for the merge modules, they gave them to me and now it works across all platforms ive tested.