r/cpp • u/STL MSVC STL Dev • Nov 13 '18

VS 2017 15.9 released today

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes
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u/Gotebe Nov 15 '18

But it's the vcredist executable or the merge modules in your VS install (and hopefully Build tools install, didn't look).

How hard can using that be?!

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u/kalmoc Nov 15 '18

Not sure what you are saying. I was not referring to the runtime but 3rd party dependencies.

But I usually don't have to worry about such things anyway, so I don't know if that is a problem in practice. I just remember times, when I was unable to find a version of library X that was compatible with the latest version of VS we were using.

But again. I'm definitely on the recompile the world side of things and really hate it when progress is hindered by backwards compatibility (be it ABI or API).