VCRUNTIME140.dll missing

Question

I have a problem when trying to install apache 2.4 on my windows 10. It always shows the error that VCRUNTIME140.dll is missing. I have checked other threads and found out t

Answer 1

I'v already had VC 2015 Redist on my PC but files were not copied into Windows\System32.

So I copied missing files directly to this folder. A thing that I should mention is since I compiled my application in X86 mode I copied them from

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\redist\x86

not

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\redist\x64

I know that this solution is not the ideal one, but it was a workaround for my case.