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If I'm not misremembering, many years ago (Windows 7 era) I had machines with 3 different 2010/2012 redistributables of the same bitness (32 or 64-bit) in Progr
by nyanpasu64 5y ago
If I'm not misremembering, many years ago (Windows 7 era) I had machines with 3 different 2010/2012 redistributables of the same bitness (32 or 64-bit) in Programs and Features. Was that actually a thing, or did I read it wrong at the time?
- creshal 5y agoThat was a thing until VS2015, as far as I can tell; the older versions let you install all minor releases in parallel. And many Windows developers choose to rather install the specific minor version they used globally, instead of just vendoring it in the program folder (even though the license allows it, hence "redistributable"). Right now my machine has no less than 4 versions of the 2008 redist installed globally, for each x86 and x64.
- nyanpasu64 5y agoIs it safe to uninstall all but the latest version of a given year's redistributable?
- mwcampbell 5y agoSpeaking of what Microsoft's VC runtime license does and doesn't allow, are there any restrictions on statically linking the runtime instead of redistributing the DLLs?
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