Fails on Windows 11 with missing dll VCRUNTIME140.dll

[defunctzombie]

Environment

Windows 11 (x64)
Node v18

@sentry/cli 2.5.2

Steps to Reproduce

Install @sentry/cli 2.5.2 on a fresh install of Windows 11 (x64) with nodejs v18 installed. The package fails to finish installing because it fails to run the cli to get the version and verify the install completed.

If you try to run the CLI manually from explorer you get a missing DLL error.

Both yarn and npm fail in the same way. Probably because the cli.exe file cannot run due to the missing DLL.

Expected Result

The package installs without error.

[defunctzombie]

Worth noting I got here because I use the @sentry/webpack-plugin which depends on @sentry/cli. I don't actually depend on @sentry/cli or use it directly.

The @sentry/webpack-plugin still depends on an older version of @sentry/cli which also fails with the same DLL error. I was able to separately reproduce the error without @sentry/webpack-plugin by trying to install the latest version of @sentry/cli on its own.

[defunctzombie]

As a workaround I installed Visual c++ Redistribution package 2015-2022. This includes the DLL. I think it would be nice if the DLL shipped without having to install this redistribution package since that's a non-obvious step which required some googling and potentially unclear direction for the end user.

[kamilogorek]

Thanks for pointing that out, added appropriate readme note, as it's preferred over statically linking whole MSVC dll.