My friends can't use an app I wrote, even though it works fine.

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I wrote a console app in C, using Visual Express 2008. It works fine on my own computer, and when I sent the source code to a friend, she compiled it and it worked fine on her PC too.

However I have uploaded the application to a free-hosting website and when my friends download the executable file it doesn't work. They just get a configuration error.

The website is:

http://www.4shared.com/account/dir/6...ng.html?rnd=54

Can anyone help? I'm new to programming and this is my first try at it. Would be great to share my work!

 

I just installed SDK from Microsoft(which you probably have) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...df-a74f-4207-8586-711ebe331cdc&DisplayLang=en and now your program runs fine. So it is obviously still dependent on some component included in the download.

There must be a way make it a fully independent executable. Does anyone here in programming know?

I've attached the .txt file to this post.

 

I compile and build then use the executable file from the debug folder. It works fine on my computer but not on others. I tried including another folder which someone said it needs but my friends still can't use it. :/ Ok I give up on Microsoft Visua C++ 2008 Express.

Can anyone recommend a decent C compiler out there which is free and has a graphic interface?

 

use the djgpp compiler. its not all graphical n chit, but it gets the job done just fine.