Do users need to install VS runtime redistributable if linking with Microsoft linker?

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On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 16:01:54 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe 
wrote:
> I could not find out which redistributable I had to install 
> (what version of VS did you have installed / on what version of 
> windows are you?). I decided to install them all, but couldn't 
> install the one for 2015 (due to Windows6.1-KB2999226-x64.msu). 
> After trying some workarounds I gave up.
>

You need the VC++ 2015 64-bit redistributable.