what is the relation between stlport.5.2.dll and Visual C++?? Do I need stlport for my program to run?

Question

I'm trying to write a simple hello world program in visual c++ using visual studio 2010 prof. Im getting the following error after successful build.

System Error:
Application couldn't start because stlport.5.2.dll is missing 

When I searched about it it is an open source project. So what is the link between these two? The only thing I changed from default VS installation is importing settings from other machine which is main build machine for our company.

Here is what I did: 1. Create an empty project. 2. Added a source file Main.cpp with hello world line. 3. F7 4. Ctrl+F5

Now I'm getting above error

Answer 1

try to run devend.exe /ResetAddin

there shouldn't be any problem.

make sure you create a simple empty project and not some kind of pre-defind project that loads other components by default. (win32 console application)

Also - search you project's external dependencies.. remove any h file that is there...

Answer 2

Our Organization uses STLPort as the standard C++ library. STLPort is an open source implementation of standard library for C++. So my Visual studio settings are modified such that any project uses stlport as the standard library and it is dynamically linked.

So we can either:

1. Put StlPort.X.X.dll in the directory where the executable is residing. OR
2. Remove the settings carefully to make your project to use default standard library provided by Microssoft SDK.