Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Developer guide clarification

[Christopher Maynard <Chris.Maynard@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gerald Combs <gerald@...> writes:

> How do you get the CRT onto the target computer? According to
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235291.aspx VC2008EE doesn't
> ship with it, so any portable packages would depend on having the
> correct vcredist_x86.exe installed.

Right, vcredist_x86.exe must be installed on the target computers so that the
portableapps & u3 installers created with VS2008EE work.  But is the developer
guide a bit misleading here since technically the installers can be created;
they just rely on the CRT to be pre-installed separately?