Application has failed to start because side by side configuration is incorrect

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i have made a application on windows 7 with win 7 sdk but when i load it on new machine it says "Application has failed to start because side by side configuration is incorrect" i tried dependency walker and included same dll which it needs.

myDLL.dll
my dll works fine on my machine but not on new machine

i have tried
vcredist [nearly all] 86 ,64..
.net [3,4]

it runs when i install SDK for windows on that machine.

1 How can we include required dll in our application.exe?
2 can we run regsvr32 for dll to load?

Posted 29-May-11 6:26am

01.mandar

Updated 29-May-11 6:28am

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Graham Shanks · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-29T08:05:00

It sounds as if you have just copied your application to the new machine. The best solution is to create an installation package and install the application instead - the installation will then copy the required files to the correct place.

You haven't said which compiler you are using, if you are using a professional version of Visual Studio then you can create a deployment project[^].

However if you are using an Express version of Visual Studio, which doesn't support deployment projects, then you have more work to do. You can follow Microsoft's guidelines[^] but it seems that you have effectively tried this and failed. You could try one of the free installation creation tools, such as Inno Setup[^] or NSIS[^].

There is some guidance of NSIS in the Creating an Installer[^] CP article. Inno Setup is covered in the .NET Framework 1.1/2.0/3.5 Installer for InnoSetup[^] CP article

The alternative to proper installation of your application is to use static linking of the libraries used. This increases the size of your application, but should allow the application to be merely copied onto the target machine.