{"author_name":"ondrew","cat":"LD #15 - Caverns - 2009","comments":[{"author_name":"Almost","time":"September 5, 2009 6:17 am","epoch":1252149420,"text":"I duno about you, but I have a Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest file that shipped with Love.. maybe you just forgot to copy it to go with your standalone because it isn’t a dll?","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Almost","time":"September 5, 2009 8:29 am","epoch":1252157340,"text":"Actually, part of the problem with your game might just have been that you’re using a batch file to run a program that may or may not still be zipped. (I had to extract your game and all related files or else it would give me an error, I was expecting to be able to just run it from within the zipped folder)","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"September 5, 2009 1:34 pm","epoch":1252175640,"text":"The day I discovered VC’s requirement of unbound manifest files was the day I decided never to use their compiler again. Like, SUPER never. Forget the crazy procedures for embedding it, no more!","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1252137600,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"72460","p_author":"ondrew","p_authorkey":"489","p_urlkey":"108282","p_title":"L\u00f6ve, You failed me","p_cat":"LD #15 - Caverns - 2009","p_event":"LD15","p_time":"1252137600","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"3","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"489","us_name":"ondrew","us_username":"ondrew","event_start":"1251417600","event_key":"1","event_name":"LD15"},"text":"

Hi,<\/p>\n

I found out, that my game is not working on some computers. Grr.<\/p>\n

After some tests I finally managed to reproduce it on my own computer and found out, that L\u00f6ve is shipping without Microsoft.VC80.CRT .<\/p>\n

If you look at the love.exe file, you’ll find, that the manifest describing dependencies explicitly lists this file.<\/p>\n

\"love\"<\/p>\n

So it’s nice from the L\u00f6ve developers to ship msvcp80.dll and msvcr80.dll, but without the Microsoft.VC80.CRT is kind of pointless, because they won’t be find on computers that don’t have Visual Studio Redistribution Package installed.<\/p>\n

I already filed a bug<\/a> in the L\u00f6ve bug tracker and added the file to my game. So if you couldn’t start it, you can now try again.<\/p>\n

I assume it applies to all games that used L\u00f6ve – so this is a nice standalone solution, that doesn’t force users to install VS redistributables.<\/p>","time":"September 5th, 2009 3:00 am","title":"L\u00f6ve, You failed me"}