How to bind up a single exe in vc++ project?

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I have done a project in Visual studio 2010, Visual C++ project. How to bind and deploy the project into a single exe which could run on all machines, including machines not having Visual Studio. I would like to make this exe to work in any machine without any dlls in that folder, or framework installation, Just the standalone exe, a single click should run the application without any dependencies

Posted 20-Nov-11 22:23pm

Gokulnath007

Updated 20-Nov-11 22:47pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2011-11-20T22:32:00

There are different ways of deploying of a product, which I don't want to discuss because you did not explain your requirements. I would personally prefer just to copy a file to a target machine, but .EXE is supposed to be able to work like that.

Anyway, Visual Studio is never required on the target machine. Never. In worse case, you need to install so called "Visual Studio re-distributable" bundled with each version of Visual Studio. You have a right of unlimited re-distribution with your product.

Everyone can download the re-distributable package free of charge. For example: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=5555[^].

—SA