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Originally Posted by BetterRed
My memory is that the Sigil install initiates a download and install of the C++ run time it needs. Maybe it couldn't do that because your laptop has no internet, hence you're stuck on the old version of the C++ runtime.
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No. The Sigil installer doesn't do any downloading. The vc++ runtime redistributable is included with the Sigil installer. But the runtime installer only runs if it's not already installed on your machine (or the installed version of the runtime is an earlier build than the one included with Sigil).
I need to see if I can build the Windows plugin Flightcrew executable with MingW or something, so there's no runtime dependency. The problem is that the plugin's vc++ dependency and Sigil's are out of sync right now. It's not usually going to be a problem since most people that already have Sigil installed, have vc++ 2013 (from previous versions of Sigil at the very least). But as this thread proves, there's only going to be more and more machines that might not have the runtime installed that Flightcrew currently needs.
I can easily update the Flightcrew plugin to use the same vc++ runtime as Sigil 0.9.7, but then the plugin wouldn't work on computers that had older versions of Sigil installed (unless they'd manually installed the vc++ 2015 runtime themselves).