Why Do I Get the Error "The Program Can't Start Because Msys-2.0. Dll Is Missing from Your Computer"? Is There a Fix?
I Have Written a Long Program in C, So I Am Not Writing the Whole Code. These Are the Libraries I a Using (In Case It Matters) #Include #Include #Include...
I have written a long program in C, so I am not writing the whole code. These are the libraries I a using (in case it matters)
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#include "xlsxwriter.h"
The program runs perfectly on my Windows computer, and in my work computer as well where I have the same programs.
But when I am running in on a colleagues computer this error appears:
System error:
The program can't start because msys-2.0.dll is missing from your computer.
Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.
Is there some way to make it work without installing the whole visual studio?
Rookie C programmer here!:)
Edit: I am compiling like this:
gcc Example.c -o Example -static-libgcc -std=c99 -lxlsxwriter -lz
2 Answers
MSYS is probably a MinGW related runtime library (perhaps its C standard library).
You need to install it on any Windows computer executing a binary compiled with MinGW.
See also this question.
You may want to ask your colleagues to install MSYS2.
Perhaps consider also building a statically linked executable (so compile and link with -static passed to GCC).
(this is only an educated guess; I never used Windows)
You need to build your program with the MinGW compiler, not the MSYS compiler.
See this answer for details.
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