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title="NEW - Cannot run LibreOffice, api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing (for local solution see comment 7)"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108580#c11">Comment # 11</a>
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title="NEW - Cannot run LibreOffice, api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing (for local solution see comment 7)"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108580">bug 108580</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:mikekaganski@hotmail.com" title="Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski@hotmail.com>"> <span class="fn">Mike Kaganski</span></a>
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<pre>Sigh.
A discussion in a blog by Visual C++ team [1] describes this in detail.
<span class="quote">> On Windows Vista and newer operating systems, the Universal CRT is
> installed via Windows Update—either when the machine downloads new
> updates from the web or when you install one of the redistributable
> packages from the Download Center (the November build, 10586, can be
> found here:
> <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50410">http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50410</a>).
> Windows Update redistributables do not use MSI; they have a different
> installer technology. Because they do not use MSI, there are no MSMs
> for the Universal CRT. For Windows Vista and newer, installation of
> the Windows Update packages is the only supported way to get the
> Universal CRT onto the machine in the system directory. The Visual C++
> libraries MSMs install the Universal CRT on Windows XP only because
> the Universal CRT is not an operating system component on Windows XP
> (and Windows XP does not support the same Windows Update packaging
> mechanisms that are used on Windows Vista and above). Do not modify
> the MSMs.</span >
So, it turns out that we cannot bundle the Universal CRT with the installer. In
that case, we have a hard external dependency on those systems, that we must
mention on release notes page. And possibly on the download page, with a link
to MS site (mentioned in <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=108580#c7">comment 7</a>).
[1]
<a href="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2015/03/03/introducing-the-universal-crt/">https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2015/03/03/introducing-the-universal-crt/</a></pre>
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