Visual Studio Code – VCRUNTIME140_1D.dll missing in Visual Studio 2017 CMake project – do I need Visual Studio 2019 too and use it in older version of Studio?

Issue:

I’ve recently started developing (C++) on Win10. I have a CMake project that builds perfectly fine (both debug and release build), however if I try to run it with the intention of debugging, I get VCRUNTIME140_1D.dll missing error.

The issue lies in the absence of the debug version of the VC++ runtime 140.1 (hence the D prefix in the error message).

I start the binary in two ways:

• PowerShell – where it silently crashes (it’s a very typical uncooperative behaviour in PowerShell that I still need time to get used to)
• Debugging mode in VS2017 – for the actual debugging. This is where the actual error (in the form of a message box) appears on my screen.

Setup:

Using Visual Studio 2017, Win10. Debugging is required during the development stage but later on a release build will be created and shipped to the customer.

Using CMake 3.12 (shipped with VS2017). Full CMakeLists.txt can be seen at the end.

The libraries I am linking against are

• libtorch 1.12.1 – latest version of libtorch C++ binaries with dependencies (straight from the official website of PyTorch). Currently unable to identify compiler.
• opencv 4.6.0 – latest version of OpenCV binaries (straight from the official website of OpenCV). Two versions available – VC14 and VC15. Using VC15, assuming that it refers to VC++ shipped with Visual Studio 2015, that is v140/v140.1 of the MSVC toolkit.

Both dependencies are available in debug and release versions. However I would like to (if possible) link against the release versions of the 3rd party libraries and concentrate on debugging my own code (the size of libtorch’s debug build is insane – for both CPU and CUDA you get whopping 12GB!).

Ideas:

I looking on my C: and all I can find were

• vcruntime140d.dll
• vcruntime140.dll
• vcruntime140_1.dll

I also read that /MD vs /MDd as flags play an important role.

I’ve encountered a couple of posts online mentioning that I need to install Visual Studio 2019.

Questions:

Following two questions are important here:

• Which components do I need to install (VS2019 or otherwise) in order to obtain just this DLL and is it sufficient to have it in order to be able run in debug mode?

• Can I use (for debugging only) a VC++ Runtime shipped with VS2019 Community Edition in a VS2017 Professional Edition project? Currently I have only access to the Pro version of VS2017.

My project file in CMake can be seen below:

CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.12 FATAL_ERROR)

project(pytroch
  DESCRIPTION "CMake example for PyTorch (libtorch C++) integration"
  LANGUAGES CXX
)

set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 14)

set(INCLUDE_DIR "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/include")
set(SRC_DIR "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/src")

set(CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/deps/libtorch/1.12.1/debug/cpu/share/cmake/Torch")
#set(CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/deps/libtorch/1.12.1/release/cpu/share/cmake/Torch")
find_package(Torch REQUIRED)
if(TORCH_FOUND)
    message(STATUS "Found Torch")
else()
    message(CRITICAL_ERROR "Unable to find Torch")
endif(TORCH_FOUND)

set(CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/deps/opencv/4.6.0/")
find_package(OpenCV 4.6.0 REQUIRED)

add_library(pytorch_cv_utils SHARED "${SRC_DIR}/pytorch_cv_utils.cpp")
target_include_directories(pytorch_cv_utils PUBLIC  ${INCLUDE_DIR} ${TORCH_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${OpenCV_INCLUDE_DIRS})
target_link_libraries(pytorch_cv_utils PUBLIC ${TORCH_LIBRARIES} ${OpenCV_LIBS})

add_executable(pytroch_load_model
    "${SRC_DIR}/pytroch_load_model.cpp"
)
target_include_directories(pytorch_cv_utils PUBLIC  ${INCLUDE_DIR} ${TORCH_INCLUDE_DIRS})
target_link_libraries(pytroch_load_model PRIVATE pytorch_cv_utils)

# Copy Torch dependencies to binary folder
file(GLOB LIBTORCH_DLLS
#  "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/deps/libtorch/1.12.1/release/cpu/lib/*.dll"
  "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/deps/libtorch/1.12.1/debug/cpu/lib/*.dll"
)
file(COPY
    ${LIBTORCH_DLLS}
    DESTINATION "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/bin/"
)

# Copy OpenCV dependencies to binary folder
file(GLOB OPENCV_DLLS
  "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/deps/opencv/4.6.0/x64/vc15/bin/*.dll"
)
file(COPY
    ${OPENCV_DLLS}
    DESTINATION "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/bin/"
)