I downloaded an update of Libre Office 5.4 over and it is showing missing api*.....*.dll file msg

[Atindra]

Hi
I am long time user of LO, I had 5.3 version previously on my Windows 7 64 bit system. But when I updated to LO 5.4, it didnt work and showed an error message of missing dll file. File name is api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll
What could be the reason? I tried downgrading back to LO 5.3, but is not working now anymore.
What to do?

Atindra

[erAck]

Is it mandatory to have Visual C++ redistributable 2015 installed to run LibreOffice 5.4?on

After installation, I was shown a dialog box that said that my computer didn’t have the api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll. I retrieved the dll from the web and installed it. But the problem persisted and I was informed by dialog boxes that I didn’t have several other files beginning with “api-ms-win” etc. After a few web searches I gathered these files were parts of the Visual C++ redistributable for Visual Studio 2015. Many sites advised me to download and install the said Visual C++ redistri…

[Regina]

See https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108580, especially comment 7.