This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect @ Alan Kleymeyer’s Blog

This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect

Posted on June 24th, 2008 Alan 5 comments

"This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect"

Was getting this message when testing an application recently converted to VS 2008 from VS 6.0. Depends showed that MSVCRT80.DLL was a missing dependency.

Here are a few threads on the subject:

On MSDN Forums

Nikola's Weblog

The programs was pretty small so I felt the easiest workaround was to link statically to the C runtime library. I did this by making sure I selected Multi-threaded (/MT) rather than Multi-threaded DLL (/MD) in the C/C++…Code Generation…Runtime Library option.

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5 responses to “This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect”
1. neuronerd December 12th, 2008 at 15:04
  
  IT WORKS, HOWS IT THAT VERY LITTLE PPL KNOW THIS SINGLE FIX???!!
  
  THANKS MAN YOU SAVED MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!
2. Aleksey December 13th, 2008 at 15:58
  
  Hi,
  I tried to do like you suggested and got the message:
  fatal error C1189: #error : Please use the /MD switch for _AFXDLL builds
  Do you have any idea what to do in this case?
  Thanks for advance.
  Aleksey
3. Aleksey December 13th, 2008 at 16:00
  
  Hi,
  I tried to do like you suggested and got the message:
  fatal error C1189: #error : Please use the /MD switch for _AFXDLL builds
  Do you have any idea what to do in this case?
  Thanks for advance.
  Aleksey
4. Jon Woellhaf December 30th, 2008 at 12:36
  
  Thanks for the tip, Alan. I had to wade through quite a bit of obfuscation before I found your enlightening fix.
5. Michael February 9th, 2009 at 08:57
  
  It also worked for me! After reading the VERY LONG MSDN forum threat,
  I am more than surprised about that easy solution.
  
  Thanks a lot!!!
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