Why so many Visual C++ files? 1

[OfficeAnimal]

I have Intel Core i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz, 8,0GB RAM, Intel HD Graphics
MS Windows 7 Home Premium v. 6.1 64-bit SP1

I also have ELEVEN versions of Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable loaded on my hard drive.

Do I really need eleven versions?
I do not understand why my machine should be blessed with so much choice.
I thought one copy would be enough.

"Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion."
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

 

[xwb]

The versions are not backward compatible and VS executables built with /MD will look for specific versions of the runtime. If, on the other hand, you didn't want any DLLs and wanted large executables, they could be built with /MT but then you'd run out of disk space quite quickly and the applications would take up several DVDs.

 

[OfficeAnimal]

Thanks.
Not what I would call great news but thanks anyway.

"Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion."
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

 

[cdogg]

Yeah, it's a lot like JRE (Java Runtime Environment). Some workstations need to have more than version installed to accommodate older apps. Although Java versions are backwards compatible, some apps are looking for a specific version at launch and will choke when it's not found.

-Carl
"The glass is neither half-full nor half-empty: it's twice as big as it needs to be."

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