Question

When I try to open released .exe file (which I wrote in Visual Studio 2008) in VMWare Workstation 6.5 with Windows Server 2008 32bit OS, got “The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect.” error all time even if the code is;

#include <stdio.h>

int main ()
{

  printf ("HELLO\n");

  return 0;
}

Is anyone faced that king of problem or does know how to cope with it?

Answer 1

You probably forgot to deploy the runtime support DLLs or copied the Debug build of your program. For a small program like this without DLLs that export C++ classes or pointers it is better to link the static version of the CRT. Project + Properties, C/C++, Code Generation, /MTd. Repeat for the Release configuration, now choose /MT.