Mill Build on Windows 11 Installation Fails with The code execution cannot proceed because VCRUNTIME140.dll was not found

[gamlerhart]

On a quite clean Windows 11 installation, when I try to run Mill build, I get this error

I used the mill repository itself, and ran:

mill.bat resolve _

It did download the executable, but then failed on this.

Work around, I assume: Change to non-native launcher or install the 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 - 2022 Redistributable'.

Not sure what a decent fix would be.

• Download the missing dll? I assume just downloading and placing it very grey territory license wise.
• Somehow detect and launch the installer?
• Maybe there is a GrallVM option?
• Or leave it as is: Document it in a FAQ entry. A lot of systems will have it installed.

[alexarchambault]

That's a known GraalVM issue. Not sure what would be a fully satisfying workaround. coursier, Scala CLI, … also suffer from that.

[lihaoyi]

A workaround would be to use the JVM launcher rather than the native launcher, which you can do by appending -jvm to the version (e.g. 1.0.0-RC2-jvm)

[gamlerhart]

The work around is good enough for me =).