[md5madman]

MSVC also gets false positives if the Windows libraries are statically linked to the compiled project. A painful irony that has made sharing an indie-game with test users quite difficult as it requires they install the VC++ redistributables.

[account42]

You can ship VC++ redistributables as DLLs alongside your application without an installer. Not that you should have to.

[forrestthewoods]

> not that you should have to

On the contrary, every application should ship their dependencies!

[account42]

Sure, but the best option for that is to statically link them (if they are only used by one binary and users swapping them out doesn't make sense). And you should be able to do that without third parties slandering you.