osagent giving error "The system cannot execute the specified program"

Problem:

• Product Name: VisiBroker
• Product Version: 7.0
• Product Component: osagent
• Platform/OS Version: Windows XP/2003

After copying osagent to distributable directory, it throws error "The system cannot execute the specified program"

Resolution:

After copying all the required dlls & exes to distributed package, osagent throws "The system cannot execute the specified program" error when launched. This is because of missing manifest files (from Microsoft Visual Studio 8) in <VBROKERDIR>/bin directory. VisiBroker 7.0 for Windows is built with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 (VC version 8). To run VisiBroker 7.0 osagent, VC8 runtime DLLs are needed.

Please make sure to copy "Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest" and "Microsoft.VC80.MFC.manifest" from Microsoft Visual Studio 8 installed directory.

Another approach to resolve such issue is to download and install "Microsoft Visual C 2005 Redistributable Package" from Microsoft.