Thread: Deploying C Application: Help!

I've developed a C application and can't figure out how to coax Visual Studio 2005 to give me a deployable .exe.

Details: The program is pure ANSI C (K-R). It uses one .h file as well as many of the ANSI standard libraries. It interacts with windows only with "printf", "fprintf" and binary read C commands.
OS: WinXPPro
Challenge: The C program works great on the machine on which I developed it. But when I move the .exe file to another XPPro machine (with all .net libraries but not Visual Studio) it won't even load.
Tried so far: I've tried to follow the MSDN "How to deploy project" pages but it wants DDL files etc. If I simply skip those steps the result still won't load on another XPPro machine.

I'm obviously missing something but I have clue what it is. I need help. Thanks.

Originally Posted by Elysia

You need to have the target machine install the 2005 runtime. There's one for SP1, too. Are you using SP1?

You should not need a runtime of any kind for a straight C console program.

I'm using WinXPPro with SP2. All the latest Windows updates have been installed. I was confused about runtime environments as well. I, too, thought that wasn't an issue with a pure C program.

If I have to add some kind of runtime environment when I ask Visual Studio 2005 to compile it, how do I do that? I see no options or controls to make a "runtime environment" or "target machine" happen?