lualatex error (and how to solve it)

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2024 at 01:50:55PM -0300, Fede Bosio wrote:
> I have Tex Live 2023 installed in a 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate Service Pack
> 1. I wasn't able to run lualatex due to a missing Microsoft Visual C++
> Runtime dependency.
> 
> [image: image.png]
> Fortunately, I have Python 3.8 installed, so I already had the file
> in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Python\Python38 and I just copied it
> to C:\texlive\2023\bin\windows to make lualatex work.
> [image: image.png]
> I'm not sure why this happened though since I do see this file in the Tex
> Live Subversion repository
> <https://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/bin/windows/>. I guess I had an
> older version installed. How can I prevent these errors in the future?

This dll is already part of Windows 10, AFAICS, and we do not
officially support earlier Windows versions anymore, so such
'omissions' may never get caught.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg