I was able to fix this error by installing the Visual C++ redistributable 2013 package.
I installed both the x64 and x86 packages.
Question
I am using Visual Studio Express 2013 on Windows 7 x64 Professional.
I followed this thread to setup libCurl with my Visual C++ project.
But I get the following error message when I try to run any program, even the simple.c program fails.
The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0150002). Click OK to close the application.
Solution
I was able to fix this error by installing the Visual C++ redistributable 2013 package.
I installed both the x64 and x86 packages.