I'm working on a project. It involves networked code, so I wanted to send it to a friend to test it with.
I sent him only the .exe in my Debug folder, and it had an error on opening. It said something similar to "can not open because side-by-side config is missing".
How do I "finalize" a program to send it to another person on the same Windows operating system?
On Visual Studio, you do this:
1. To the right green "run" button, set the compile state to "Release"
2. Go to the menu "Project -> (project name) properties"
3. Under "Configuration Properties -> C/C++ -> Code Generation", set "Runtime library" to "Multi-threaded (/MT)"
This is what I found to be the most portable configurations.
great I'll try it out.
Thanks!
I changed my working project to Multi-threaded DLL, and changed it from Debug to Release, but now I am getting linker errors.
I had it properly set to link ws2_32.lib. Do I have to take that file manually and put it in the same folder as the builded .exe?
What is going on?
Bah sorry, I didn't realize the linker settings are different for Debug and Release. Stupid mistake :)
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