How to install MSVCR90D.DLL

Question

How do I install MSVCR90D.DLL? I have a small test DLL(debug mode) that I created a setup project. In my setup project, I included merge modules & policy for vc90_debugcrt_x86.msm, etc. When I install the DLL on my VM, dependency walker still reports that MSVCR90D.DLL cannot be found?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

MSVCR90D.DLL is the debug version of the Visual Studio Runtime Libraries. Normally, if you're deploying that code, you would build it in Release mode and also provide/install the Visual Studio Runtime Redistributable. As far as I know, the only way to obtain the debug dlls are through a Visual Studio install.

Answer 2

See here.

Preparing a Test Machine To Run a Debug Executable

Microsoft does not officially support deploying debug runtimes outside of dev/test environments but you can make it work if you need to. Sounds like this is a vanilla test environment installation, though.

Answer 3

Just copy the MSVCR90D.DLL file into the same directory as your own dll. Then both your dll and dependency walker will find the MSVCR90D.DLL file.

You may need a couple of other files like msvcp90d.dll or msvcm90d.dll but dependency walker knows if you need them for your purposes.

Answer 4

The py2exe utility that converts Python scripts into executable Windows programs seems to have a similar problem here. Maybe the section "Bundling the C runtime DLL" helps you to find the solution.