I would like to ship DLLs from "Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019" with my application but cannot find them on my PC. I tried different locations from: https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/cpp/windows/determining-which-dlls-to-redistribute?view=msvc-160 https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/cpp/windows/determining-which-dlls-to-redistribute?view=msvc-160 I found something locally in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\Common7\IDE" but not sure if this is the correct ones I even installed the package on a clean box to try to detect where those are placed but with no luck. What is the right folder where I can find the dlls?

DLLs are copied into %WINDIR%\System32, so you don't redistribute them individually You redistribute them with vc_redist.x86.exe , vc_redist.x64.exe , ... ( The latest supported Visual C++ downloads )

Location of "Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2019" dlls

Dmitry Senin 6

I would like to ship DLLs from "Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019" with my application but cannot find them on my PC.

I tried different locations from:

https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/cpp/windows/determining-which-dlls-to-redistribute?view=msvc-160
https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/cpp/windows/determining-which-dlls-to-redistribute?view=msvc-160
I found something locally in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\Common7\IDE" but not sure if this is the correct ones

I even installed the package on a clean box to try to detect where those are placed but with no luck.

What is the right folder where I can find the dlls?

David Lowndes 4,711 Reputation points

2021-01-06T12:18:55.09+00:00

Have a look under C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\YourVersionHere\VC\Redist
Dmitry Senin 6 Reputation points

2021-01-06T12:33:00.497+00:00

Weird, but I don't have such a folder. The only folder I have under 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC' is 'Auxiliary'
Dmitry Senin 6 Reputation points

2021-01-06T18:05:48.033+00:00

You gave food for thoughts. I played around a little bit and turned out I needed to install C++ packages for my VS. Now I have "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\YourVersionHere\VC\Redist" and dlls in it.
Thanks!

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Castorix31 83,101 Reputation points

2021-01-06T12:21:16.02+00:00

DLLs are copied into %WINDIR%\System32, so you don't redistribute them individually
You redistribute them with vc_redist.x86.exe, vc_redist.x64.exe, ... (The latest supported Visual C++ downloads)
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Dmitry Senin 6 Reputation points

2021-01-06T12:37:19.477+00:00

https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/cpp/windows/redistributing-visual-cpp-files?view=msvc-160 mentions "Install individual redistributable files":

It's also possible to directly install the redistributable DLLs in the application local folder . That's the folder that contains your executable application file

and this is the way I want to go. I actually have already been doing that with VS 2015 dlls now I need to do the same with VS2019 dlls

N.B. Btw, there is a deployment example of what I want: https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/cpp/windows/walkthrough-deploying-a-visual-cpp-application-to-an-application-local-folder?view=msvc-160
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Location of "Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2019" dlls

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