Ever tried running some piece of application compiled for the 64bit platform? After a few years there finally are more and more applications fully (I think) benefiting from the extra 32 bits.

So I am exploring OpenLink Virtuoso, which in it’s open source variation comes as a humble downloadable zip. Runs fine on my laptop but didn’t work at first on my VPS. Why? Because msvcr100.dll was missing. The commercial flavour of this server comes with an installer, which does include all required dependencies.

Easy though. All I needed was Visual C++ Redistributable 2010 (x86), right? Right. So I downloaded, installed and it didn’t help, which left me baffled for a moment.

Time flies…

…and flies some more…

What did I realize? I was installing… the wrong redist package! Install Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x64) and all is fine.

And I was blaming OpenLink. How lame :P

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