VCRUNTIME missing when installing tap driver

Question

VCRUNTIME missing when installing tap driver

shkpk opened this issue 4 years ago · comments

I recently compiled tap driver and made package with NSIS as written in README file. However installation of .exe failed on some windows machine with VCRUNTIME error which is because those machines do not have vc_redist package not installed already.

Any idea how this can be resolved? NSIS should be adding dependencies in exe.

Samuli Seppänen · Answer 1 · Fri Oct 02 2020 15:15:54 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I vaguely recall we had the same problem years ago. Cannot remember how it was resolved. I also could not find any traces of the issue from our bug tracker.

Samuli Seppänen · Answer 2 · Fri Oct 02 2020 15:16:24 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Well, to be honest I can recall if the problem was with tap-windows(6) or OpenVPN.

Shahbaz Khan · Answer 3 · Fri Oct 02 2020 22:23:22 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Problem seems to be when compiling devcon.exe from https://github.com/OpenVPN/Windows-driver-samples
I used pre-built devcon.exe from EWDK 2017, and this error is gone.

Shahbaz Khan · Answer 4 · Sat Oct 03 2020 01:48:19 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@mattock Apparently this commit doesnt work as it should.
OpenVPN/Windows-driver-samples@f4caade?branch=f4caadeffb5b14b50ae37de5c9c06d72ead6a149&diff=split

Samuli Seppänen · Answer 5 · Tue Oct 06 2020 16:44:29 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

As mentioned in the commit comments the commit/patch for Windows-driver-samples is currently working ok for us. Otherwise we'd have a flood of user complaints. But it is possible that some WDK versions manage do not interpret the settings correctly and cause the vc_redist issue to reappear.

Shahbaz Khan · Answer 6 · Wed Oct 07 2020 02:23:23 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@mattock yes, i figured out. your commit is good, there was problem with WDK I was using. Closing this ticket.