How to build bot into one .exe file for any computers?

[Amirhan-Taipovjan-Greatest-I]

Hello!
I wanted to know how can I assemble/build My Telegram Bot into just one .exe file without additional packets because I want to host My bot on My old computer where I think it's probably not so easy to install all dependencies, files and other stuff.

[we-lu]

Hi,
without additional packets? The library is built statically by default. Whether you need to export additional dlls you have to check. If you have Git BASH, you can look at it there with ldd.

[Amirhan-Taipovjan-Greatest-I]

ldd YourTelegramBot.exe

And what should I do next?

[we-lu]

Then you will see a list of all the dll that the exe needs to run. In the column on the right you see the path. In order for your exe to also run on another Windows computer, I would now include all dll within your archive, which may not be available on your old computer. All dll that are in C:\Windows will most likely also be present on your old computer. So, I would copy all other dll into the archive with your exe.

Copy the following files to your old computer:

• testbox.exe
• libssl-3-x64.dll
• libcrypto-3-x64.dll

And try to run the exe

[Amirhan-Taipovjan-Greatest-I]

Then you will see a list of all the dll that the exe needs to run. In the column on the right you see the path. In order for your exe to also run on another Windows computer, I would now include all dll within your archive, which may not be available on your old computer. All dll that are in C:\Windows will most likely also be present on your old computer. So, I would copy all other dll into the archive with your exe.

Copy the following files to your old computer:

• testbox.exe
• libssl-3-x64.dll
• libcrypto-3-x64.dll

And try to run the exe

I keep seeing this (file not found):

If it can be useful, then My both computers have Win10 Pro.

[we-lu]

That's weird. Is it fixed if you also copy the VCRUNTIME140_1D.dll or are there even more error messages appearing?

[Amirhan-Taipovjan-Greatest-I]

That's weird. Is it fixed if you also copy the VCRUNTIME140_1D.dll or are there even more error messages appearing?

I've decided to copy these files and it actually worked!

[reo7sp]

Current Conan configuration builds tgbot-cpp itself statically by default, but that does not automatically guarantee a single self-contained EXE: libcurl/OpenSSL and the MSVC runtime must also be linked statically.

Build a Release configuration and inspect the result with:

dumpbin /DEPENDENTS YourTelegramBot.exe

If non-system DLLs are listed, either build those dependencies statically with the same Conan profile or place the matching Release DLLs beside the EXE. Install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable when the dynamic MSVC runtime is used.

Do not deploy a Debug build or copy VCRUNTIME140_1D.dll: the D suffix is the debug CRT and it is not redistributable. Also, one EXE cannot be guaranteed to run on literally any Windows computer; CPU architecture and supported Windows version must match.