Error on Windows 7: Message: The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect.

psiciliano has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks,

I'm modifying an open source program (Slic3r) and when I've successfully package my new program with citrus perl 5.16 and CAVA packager on windows

But when I tried to run it on my client's machine the program fail with the error "Message: The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect.". If I understand it correctly, it's caused because some library version on my client's machine are diferent from the libraries that I've used to compile XS modules. It not surprices me, because I've compiled it with Mingw, and they has installed Visual Studio.

I think it can be solved compiling it statically (Including all libraries on the .exe file) but there is a question ... How can I do that?

Sorry for my bad English (It's not my first language) or if it's not specifically a Perl question ... But really I think this needs Perl wisdom

Regards.
Pablo.

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Re: Error on Windows 7: Message: The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. (sxs) by Anonymous Monk on May 03, 2015 at 18:46 UTC
Theoretically, what you need to do is run mt.exe ^{Side-by-side Assembly Development Tools (Windows)} to add a bunch of .manifest files before packing with cavapackager sxstrace.exe can help to diagnose failures in the starting of applications due to SxS misconfiguration. update: cava docs say some stuff about it MS Windows Private Assemblies and http://www.cavapackager.com/appdocs/projecttree-executables.htm update: when you ship you can also ship ..\..\bin\diagnostic.exe helloworld.exe for some verbose debugging/diagnostics good luck :)	[reply]
Re: Error on Windows 7: Message: The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. by james28909 (Deacon) on May 03, 2015 at 19:45 UTC
I also run across this once, was probably because of a different reason though. The reason I got this message is because I built the exe with a 64 bit perl, and then tried to deploy it on a 32 bit machine. EDIT: I also built it with perl dev kit and used active state perl.	[reply]