Migrating to VS2010-Removing references to previous compiler

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I recently migrated VC 6.0 project to VS2010. The project was developed a decade ago. I build everything with VC10.0 compiler. Certain changes had to be made to adjust to latest MFC changes. The project is successfully build and running fine. But when I tried to install it on another machine, the registration failed. On target machine, I installed VC6.0, and now the installation is sucsseful. This indicates that there are still certain dependencies on VC6.0. In my include & link path, I have no references to VC6.0 directories. Still, I am left with this issue. How can find out such dependencies and resolve them?

Posted 3-Feb-11 23:37pm

Rajesh G Manwani from Mumbai

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Niklas L · Answer 1 · 2011-02-04T01:16:00

Try using the Depends.exe tool on your executable. It will give all dll dependencies, and hint what's missing. This tool came with VC6 if I remember correctly. It's just a plain exe file you can copy to a target machine and run on your binaries there to easily detect missing dlls, and traverse dependencies.

Andrew Brock · Answer 2 · 2011-02-04T01:57:00

To clarify on Niklas's answer, Depends.exe can be found here[^].

Also check to make sure you are using a static link to MFC and the CRT in Project Properties>General>Use of MFC and Project Properties>C++>Code Generation>Runtime Library. If you don't want to or can't use a static link (which happens from time to time) then you might need to get the VS2010 runtimes[^] (or for x64[^]).

Rajesh G Manwani from Mumbai · Answer 3 · 2011-02-04T03:30:00

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I am aware of depends.exe and I checked the dependencies before submitting the issue on forum. How can I find from depends.exe whether the library being listed corresponds to VC6.0 installation or VC10.0 installation?

Posted 4-Feb-11 3:30am

Rajesh G Manwani from Mumbai

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Niklas L 4-Feb-11 10:56am

You probably can't by any other means than the name of the dll. If you can, try installing again on a clean machine, and use depends.exe there when it doesn't work.
Is there a chance it's not related to a VC version dll, but some other dll missing, which got installed by VC6?

Albert Holguin 5-Feb-11 20:39pm

Try looking at the applications manifest to see if there's dependencies on the old dlls. Otherwise, as Niklas suggested, may be something else that was installed with VC6.

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