How to run debug file on another computer?

Question

I have a debug .exe file that i want to run on other machines that don't have MS Visual Studio 2008 installed on them. How can this be done? The release option doesn't work as the application does not function correctly when build in release (not sure why).

At the moment I'm getting a message saying "This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect".

Answer 1

You need to install the VC++ runtime on the other machine choose one (or both) of the following (depending on the version of visual studio you are using)...

1. VS2008

2. VS2005

Answer 2

Remote debugging is available. You can do that from the Visual Studio from the developer PC to the system in which the program is running. Refer the links below

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bt727f1t(VS.71).aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bt727f1t.aspx

Answer 3

You have two options:

1. Install the debug version of VC redist
2. Copy the debug runtime (C and or MFC) into your application directory. You'll find the debug runtime in your Visual Studio directory, e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\redist\Debug_NonRedist\x86\Microsoft.VC80.DebugCRT. You'll have to copy this directory into your application directory, and make sure, that the application manifest references this version of the runtime.

Answer 4

In general in the most cases it is only the problem of the program dependencies like MSVCR90D.DLL. The problem is that debug version of C++ Runtime is not free redistributive.

If you cange "Code Generation" option from "Multi-threaded Debug DLL (/MDd)" to "Multi-threaded Debug (/MTd)". It can be that your program will run after this changes.

You can use profiling in "Dependency Walker" (see www.dependencywalker.com) to see all dependency of the application (inclusive all delay load DLLs).