so...just one last question (hopefully): what's the best practice for packaging an external like this? The dependencies are:
kernel32.dll is always present and must not be distributed.
msvcp140d.dll, ucrtbase.dll and vcruntime140*.dll are Microsoft C runtime libraries.
Can you send me the binaries, so I can quickly have a look myself?
Would a .bat script be a good idea so that all of these could be copied to Windows/System32?
Anything, but not this! The days of copying stuff into System32 are - fortunately - long gone :-)
Christof