

Versions, as they each had their own distinct runtime files, not

This is different from all previous Visual C++ Newer versions of the files installed by the Visual C++ 20 Installing the Visual C++ 2015 redistributable will not replace the The latest versions, for the three supported processor platforms, can be downloaded and/or installed from the following links:ĮDIT: There may be some confusion, here, over the 'version check' I mentioned above! From the same Microsoft Support page:įor example, installing the Visual C++ 2019 redistributable willĪffect programs built with Visual C++ 20 also. Whether or not future versions of Visual C++ will also share the same redistributable package is not certain. (The "14" comes from the fact the Visual Studio 2015 includes version 14 of the MSVC compiler VS2017 = MSVC v15 and VS2019 = MSVC v16.) The runtime libraries that comprise this redistributable package are sometimes (confusingly) referred to as Visual C++ "14" Runtime Libraries. However, there have been many different versions of this redistributable package released! The installer programs (linked below) will do the required checks, to see if a more recent version is already present on the target computer, and signal if so. Note Visual C++ 2015, 20 all share the same redistributable files. The VC++ runtime redistributables are the same for VS 2015, 20! From Microsoft Support:
