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Ron Warholic
Ron Warholic

Reputation: 10074

ATL Security update broke compatibility for DLLs depending on the older version

The recent ATL security update updated the C++ runtimes to version 8.0.50727.4053. Unfortunately, this update broke one of our DLLs that dynamically links to the runtime, as we only have 8.0.50727.762 available to us on the target machine (we don't even use ATL).

Is there a way we can get Visual Studio to dynamically link to the older DLL? I'd like to avoid statically linking if possible.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 554

Answers (3)

Motti
Motti

Reputation: 114695

Another solution is forcing VS to link against the old versions of the WinSxS DLLs as explained in this article.

Upvotes: 2

Motti
Motti

Reputation: 114695

I don't know if this is feasible but have you tried having your customers install the redistributable package?

Upvotes: 0

dmw
dmw

Reputation: 1538

Copy the requisite DLL versions directly into your executable's directory, it is searched first during dynamic linking.

Upvotes: 0

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