Cannot run release builds: DLLs missing

[vtereshkov]

[skejeton]

I'm looking into it rn

[skejeton]

Does this help: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170#visual-studio-2015-2017-2019-and-2022 ?

[vtereshkov]

@skejeton No, it doesn't, as I have already told you. My conjecture is that this *.exe is in fact a debug build rather than a release one, so that it expects the debug versions of those DLLs (notice the D suffix in the DLL names).

On the other hand, when I run the same *.exe on another machine with Visual Studio installed, it no more complains about the DLLs, but immediately crashes on a failed assertion:

[vtereshkov]

@skejeton The only way to run the app I have found so far is to clone the repo and rebuild everything from scratch:

[vtereshkov]

@skejeton I have finally figured out what we need to fix this issue:

• Publish release builds of catedu.exe rather than debug ones (no more problems with missing DLLs)
• Put the user and assets folders to the same folder as catedu.exe (they all can be in the same archive)

[skejeton]

Hmm interesting because I thought the builds were already compiled in release mode. I'll fix the CI right now.

[skejeton]

Yes indeed the build script used debug builds.

[skejeton]

@vtereshkov Can you confirm the CI builds work with the most recent build?

[vtereshkov]

@skejeton Your latest Git LFS fix CI has failed -- please check it. Without this fix, I only have symlinks, not the actual assets.

[skejeton]

Yeah I saw that. I'm working on it right now.

[skejeton]

@vtereshkov Should be all fixed.

[vtereshkov]

@skejeton Confirmed and closed.