VS C++ express 2010 or VS C++ express 2012

[William Gaatjes]

Hello folks,
I have a few questions.

I am hoping to continue making my W-ARM program manager function as intended. At the moment under W7-64 i get a "side by side" error and the program will not start in any way. After googling, i found out that it might have something to do with having to install redistributable libraries from the VS i used. Is this true ? Is this something that is standard for express versions ?
At the moment i have no Visual Studio installed.
That i must also install redistributable libraries with my program ?
Is there a setting to prevent this ?

I used to have VS C++ express 2005 or 2008 , i am not sure(have to look it up)
Which of the newer version is the best to use for to a stand alone program ?
VS2010 C++ express or VS2012 C++ express ?

Or am i better of, installing my older VS C++ studio again ?

 

[Paul98]

Hello folks,
I have a few questions.

I am hoping to continue making my W-ARM program manager function as intended. At the moment under W7-64 i get a "side by side" error and the program will not start in any way. After googling, i found out that it might have something to do with having to install redistributable libraries from the VS i used. Is this true ? Is this something that is standard for express versions ?
At the moment i have no Visual Studio installed.
That i must also install redistributable libraries with my program ?
Is there a setting to prevent this ?

I used to have VS C++ express 2005 or 2008 , i am not sure(have to look it up)
Which of the newer version is the best to use for to a stand alone program ?
VS2010 C++ express or VS2012 C++ express ?

Or am i better of, installing my older VS C++ studio again ?

Yes you will need to redistributable for your program to run, just type in redistributable and the year VS you have there will be a download from microsoft. There are a couple more options, but if you just want to run your program on your new computer that is by far the easiest.

I recently moved from VS 2008( though still running on my old computer ) to VS 2012 express using C#. I really like 2012, only thing it's missing is MFC that I have a few older programs using. But that isn't a big deal since I can still use my old computer to do that.

Really all you need to do is see which year has the stuff you want in it. If one is missing something and the other has it just use the correct version.

 

[William Gaatjes]

I looked it up and i installed VS2008 again to be on the save side.

Long ago i had uploaded the W-ARM IDE with WARM program manager on sourceforge.
I guess the program never worked for people without the distributable libraries.
Is there away to integrate the libraries into the program by changing a setting ?

 

[Jaydip]

I looked it up and i installed VS2008 again to be on the save side.

Long ago i had uploaded the W-ARM IDE with WARM program manager on sourceforge.
I guess the program never worked for people without the distributable libraries.
Is there away to integrate the libraries into the program by changing a setting ?

Do you want to create an installer?

 

[William Gaatjes]

Do you want to create a installer?

I made this program W-ARM that works together with an editor PN2.exe and with the GCC toolchain for ARM MCU's.

That is something i had planned, using an installer.
Because i have to modify the PATH variable for the GCC tools.
The make program does not function other wise.
And now that i think of it, i never checked to see what happens when i enter the explicit path to the needed files in the make file.

Also, the PN2(programmers notepad) needs modification of the usertools xml files.

I now hacked it into the W-ARM program to modify settings.
But i already noticed that i cannot modify the PATH variable in the registry anymore under W7-x64.

An installer that would modify settings in a clean way would be much more handier.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Is there away to integrate the libraries into the program by changing a setting ?

No if this is a .NET language application

Yes if this is unmanaged C/C++. The option is "static linking" for the runtime libraries that you are using:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Fo...d020828598b8/static-linking-in-vs2010-runtime