api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer

[jchannon]

Steps to reproduce

Publish a self contained dotnetcore app

dotnet "publish" "C:\myapp" --configuration Release --framework netcoreapp1.0 --runtime win10-x64 --output C:\output

Copy the results to a clean Windows 2012 server

Run the exe produced from the publish command

Expected behavior

The application to start

Actual behavior

An error api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer

Environment data

dotnet --info output: N/A

[jchannon]

Going to try Windows Update to see if it fixes it.

Lets Do This!!

[TheRealPiotrP]

@jchannon any luck? Can you also share your dotnet --version output? I'm curious what build you're using as these issues haven't been seen since preview2 or so...

[jchannon]

All working after running windows update and installing Visual C++ Redistributable.

Linked PRs to update the docs merged for future people