Question

I have coded a game of noughts and crosses in C++ using SDL and Visual Studio 2010. I have built it in Release and it works no problem if I run the .exe on the computer I compiled it on (Windows 7 64bit Home Premium).

I tried to run it on my laptop (Windows 7 x86 Home premium) and it opens up an SDL window and immediately closes. I found it was crashing when loading a particular file so added a console output to the initialisation code and turns out it is this file it can’t find:

if((menuSurface = Surface::Load("gfx/menu.png")) == NULL){
        std::cout << "menu Did not load.";
        system("pause");
        return false;
    }

Peculiarly this is the second file loaded and the original computer can find it fine.

Problem above has been solved! I simply forgot to add the extra .dll files that came with sdl_image such as zlib1.dll, libpng12-0.dll etc… Second problem still persists.

Additionally on my friends computer when I run it, it comes up with this error

TestWin32.exe – System Error

The program can’t start because MSVCR100.dll is missing from your
*computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.*

I included the MSVCR100.dll file in the same folder as the .exe (along with the SDl.dll and SDL_image.dll) and still no joy. The file is present in his SysWOW64 folder but the program isn’t picking it up. Can anyone see what may be causing this?

Answer 1

The first problem is likely an issue with the resource not being at the correct location.

The second problem is that with the new Microsoft C runtime DLLs you cannot just include it, you need to deploy the appropriate redistributable for Visual Studio 2010.

You can find that (x86) here. There is also a separate x64 version if you need it.