MySQL Bugs: #87480: MySQL server install fails with This application requires Visual Studio 2013 Red

Bug #87480	MySQL server install fails with This application requires Visual Studio 2013 Red
Submitted:	20 Aug 2017 4:40	Modified:	21 Aug 2017 7:54
Reporter:	Tadas Talaikis	Email Updates:
Status:	Duplicate	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL for Windows: Installer	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.7.19	OS:	Windows (10)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
Trying to install MySQL server fails with:

1: Action 07:29:25: INSTALL. 
1: 1: MySQL Server 5.7 2: {F08E9C75-A42E-4962-8760-4CBD9CF35D7A} 
1: Action 07:29:25: FindRelatedProducts. Searching for related applications
1: Action 07:29:25: AppSearch. Searching for installed applications
1: Action 07:29:26: LaunchConditions. Evaluating launch conditions
1: This application requires Visual Studio 2013 Redistributable. Please install the Redistributable then run this installer again.
1: 1: MySQL Server 5.7 2: {F08E9C75-A42E-4962-8760-4CBD9CF35D7A} 3: 3 
1: The action 'Install' for product 'MySQL Server 5.7.19' failed.

when redistributable is installed.

How to repeat:
1. Download MySQL installer
2. Install MySQL server

Why don't you simply install this redestributable shared library then? It is available here here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40784 (can easily be found with a simple Google search).

It has been discussed before why Oracle don't package such dependencies with their installer(s). I remember one Oracle person replied in one discussion that they had been given a legal advice not to do so with shared libraries from Microsoft (what I believe is nonsense as it is *redistributable*).

(Besides I am not sure that it is the server that has this dependency. It look more likely to me, that it is Workbench. But I don't know for sure).

-- Peter
-- not a MySQL/Oracle person

One more link:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads

You will need ssscuh packages with many applications

Please read the bug report:

*** *** when redistributable is installed *** ***

Hm... I've read everything in MySQL installation documentation nd have from 2008 to 2017 redistributables installed, MySQL (latest, both versions) installer doesn't find any of them when trying to install MySQL server. Everything works on other components OK.

Please just do what Peter suggested you:

[20 Aug 14:03] Peter Laursen

Why don't you simply install......

For the third time, it is already installed.

Hello Tadas Talaikis,

Thank you for the bug report.
This is most likely duplicate of Bug #87139, please see Bug #87139

Thanks,
Chiranjeevi.

OK, here's the problem. 64-bit installer looks for 32-bit version of redist, installing 32- bit version fixes this problem:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/45165995/5922692