cbarlow1.552491481170676E12 asked a question.
Urgent Question regarding MFC80.dll and Prerequisites
I have a somewhat urgent question.
I have an InstallShield 2008 InstallScript project. The built in InstallShield dependency scanner indicates I need msvcr80.dll, msvcp80.dll, and MFC80.dll. Since IS 2008 doesn't have Objects/Merge Modules available for these files, I included the vcredist_x86.exe in my installation, then I silently run it and delete the file during the OnEnd function, after everything else has been installed. The installation works fine on my machine, but on our test machine, I get the error:
"The application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem."
I noticed that vcredit_x86.exe did not install MFC80.exe, as I thought it would. Does anyone know if Windows has another download that includes this file that I could link directly to my installation as I've done with the runtime libraries? Also, I read something somewhere about prerequisites, but I don't know much about them, or how to implement them in InstallScript. Could this be my problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Clark
According to
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=D5692CE4-ADAD-4000-ABFE-64628A267EF0&displaylang=en and
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=32bc1bee-a3f9-4c13-9c99-220b62a191ee&displaylang=en
vcredist_x86.exe also requires Windows Installer 3.0 or later. Make sure you add this as a prerequisite.
The files are installed to the WinSxS folder for operating systems that support side-by-side installations (WinXP SP2-SP3, Vista, Server 2003, Server 2008) otherwise I think they are installed to system32.
So I could have run the 2005 redist, (which I tried and it worked), but instead I decided to copy everything from the two folders below (including the .manifest files) and install them directly into the program target directory, which also worked:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\redist\x86\Microsoft.VC80.MFC
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\redist\x86\Microsoft.VC80.CRT
Thanks everyone for your help.