Custom Windows Build - VCRUNTIME140_1.dll is missing

Building Blender
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Hello,

I have a custom Blender build, built at Windows 10 Pro with VS 2019. When i build the newest version then i get an blender.exe system error when i move this build to my laptop with Win 7 and try to start it. VCRUNTIME140_1.dll is missing.

Checking where the problem could be leaded me to some differences in the folders between the official Blender 2.81 release folder, and what i get when compiling from source. There are quite a few differences. For example, blender.lib is missing in the official release now.

I guess it’s static libs in the official release. But i cannot get it to work with my custom build. The error is still there. So i do obviously something wrong. Could somebody please enlighten me? What are the exact steps now to get the same static libs like in the official Blender release build?

Kind regards
Arunderan

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It’s an incompatibility with cmake and the latest vs2019 versions, the builds on blender.org are made with 2017 so that is why our builds worked.

good news is: It should be fixed in cmake 3.15.5

Minor feedback:

If you have your own build there is no reason to distribute datatoc/makesdna/etc/etc these are only used during the build, when you run cpack -G ZIP or cpack -G 7Z in your build folder, it will package up all the files you need and leave out the ones you don’t just like the buildbot builds

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Many thanks LazyDodo. This helps a ton :slight_smile:

And many thanks with the hint towards the obsolete files :slight_smile:

Kind regards Arunderan