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Asked: 2026-06-13T01:40:45+00:00

My program depends on Microsoft redistribute package, or to be more specific, depends on

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My program depends on Microsoft redistribute package, or to be more specific, depends on MSVCR100.dll

A recommanded approach is to install the redistribute package before my program running. However, my program is quite small(about 1MB), the vcredist.exe is about 5MB, it is a little too big for my installer.

So here is another way, according to license of Microsoft, we can install the dll into a subfolder(\VC\redist\x86\Microsoft.VC100.CRT\) in my application folder. So my application directory is like:

MyAppFolder\a.exe
MyAppFolder\lib\a.dll
MyAppFolder\VC\redist\x86\Microsoft.VC100.CRT\MSVCR100.dll

My question is, how do I make the a.dll find the MSVCR100.dll which located in another folder?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Just found a function – AddDllDirectory that can solve my problem.

    Yes, I can link the CRT as a static library, but in my case there are several libraries that depend on it, which means every dll has a copy of MSVCR100.dll.

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