In addition to the copy in your Visual Studio installation, the current Redistributable packages are available for download. We recommend central deployment because Microsoft can use the Windows Update service to independently update these libraries. For example, vc_ installs the 32-bit libraries for both x86 and 圆4 computers, vc_redist.圆4.exe installs the 64-bit libraries for 圆4 computers, and installs the libraries for ARM and ARM64 computers.

These packages are architecture-specific executables that use central deployment to install the Redistributable files on a user's computer. However, running an older installer will not conflict with a more recent installation.To make it easier to include the Redistributable DLLs with your installer, they're available as stand-alone Redistributable packages. I interpret this as meaning that, if you have an 'older' version of the vc_redist installation (released, say, with VS2015), it's components will be updated by any newer installation. Versions, as they each had their own distinct runtime files, not This is different from all previous Visual C++ Newer versions of the files installed by the Visual C++ 20 Installing the Visual C++ 2015 redistributable will not replace the The latest versions, for the three supported processor platforms, can be downloaded and/or installed from the following links:ĮDIT: There may be some confusion, here, over the 'version check' I mentioned above! From the same Microsoft Support page:įor example, installing the Visual C++ 2019 redistributable willĪffect programs built with Visual C++ 20 also. Whether or not future versions of Visual C++ will also share the same redistributable package is not certain. (The '14' comes from the fact the Visual Studio 2015 includes version 14 of the MSVC compiler VS2017 = MSVC v15 and VS2019 = MSVC v16.)

The runtime libraries that comprise this redistributable package are sometimes (confusingly) referred to as Visual C++ '14' Runtime Libraries.

However, there have been many different versions of this redistributable package released! The installer programs (linked below) will do the required checks, to see if a more recent version is already present on the target computer, and signal if so. Note Visual C++ 2015, 20 all share the same redistributable files.

The VC++ runtime redistributables are the same for VS 2015, 20! From Microsoft Support:

Visual c++ 2019 redistributable