[GH-ISSUE #184] For deployment on Windows, the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable is required. #117

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Originally created by @TripleWhy on GitHub (Feb 18, 2020).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/qmlnet/qmlnet/issues/184

I feel like this should be mentioned somewhere. Maybe DiscoverOrDownloadSuitableQtRuntime() could even do this? Or maybe the download could be self-contained to not require the system wide vs redist packaage. Or maybe it could download the MinGW build instead.

Originally created by @TripleWhy on GitHub (Feb 18, 2020). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/qmlnet/qmlnet/issues/184 I feel like this should be mentioned somewhere. Maybe `DiscoverOrDownloadSuitableQtRuntime()` could even do this? Or maybe the download could be self-contained to not require the system wide vs redist packaage. Or maybe it could download the MinGW build instead.

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@pauldotknopf commented on GitHub (Aug 21, 2020):

Ya, I think we should add a check to DiscoverOrDownloadSuitableQtRuntime to ensure the proper VC++ lib is installed.

Using MinGW would be ideal, because we can then ensure our Qt works on all Windows platforms, but it would require me to change our build process a bit, which I don't have the time to do at the moment.

@pauldotknopf commented on GitHub (Aug 21, 2020): Ya, I think we should add a check to ```DiscoverOrDownloadSuitableQtRuntime``` to ensure the proper VC++ lib is installed. Using MinGW would be ideal, because we can then ensure our Qt works on all Windows platforms, but it would require me to change our build process a bit, which I don't have the time to do at the moment.