Suggestion: Consider changing /MD to /MT for Windows MSVC compilation

[2shady4u]

I've had a user complain to me that the library wasn't working on actively crashing the game.
After a lot of back and forth, we figured out that it was because the proper MSVC libraries weren't installed.
Godot isn't able to check this, nor is it able to install the proper VC++ redistributables.

The VCRUNTIME140-dependency as seen in DependenciesGUI:

What is the proper solution for this issue?

• Is there a way to automatically detect & install the redistributables?
• Another possible solution is to change the compilation flag /MD to /MT (and /MDd and /MTd respectively) as described here:
  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/md-mt-ld-use-run-time-library?view=msvc-160

How are you guys handling this issue?

[2shady4u]

After some discussion there seem to be 2 commonly used solutions:

• Compile the libraries using the /MT-flag. For example, Godot itself uses this and thus doesn't have any external VCRUNTIME.DLL dependencies
• Add a copy of the VCRUNTIME.DLL myself to the folder. For example, Blender uses this method.

Both have potential disadvantages/advantages as described here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/757418/should-i-compile-with-md-or-mt

[CedNaru]

For consistency, I think it's better to take the same option as Godot.