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Re:TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker? by Alupis on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @06:48PM (#7813468)
I would be absolutely shocked if there was some reason any VC++ lib would not install on any modern Windows OS.

Microsoft has many faults, but backwards compatibility is not one of them.

I doubt this would be the reason. (Also, TrueCrypt runs on OSX and Linux too, so a build environment dependent on Windows-only seems odd).

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Re:TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker? by A_Non_eMouse on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @08:42PM (#7813945)
The version of MSVC needed is 1.52c, which was 16-bit, and was the last version able to create 16-bit binaries. It was likely needed for building the bootloader. (Why this couldn't be moved over to a FOSS compiler, I don't know.)
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